Tactile Play Genesis: Montessori Strategies Subverting Victorian Classroom Rigidities

In an era where children were expected to sit in rigid silence and absorb information through monotonous repetition, one physician proposed a radically subversive idea. She believed that children could not be forced to learn, but must instead be allowed to teach themselves through self-directed physical interaction with their environment. Dr. Maria Montessori shattered the Victorian pedagogical ...