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 Maria Montessori believed that if children are given
freedom within an environment rich in activities
they will naturally choose to work rather than
play, and that they will learn much more readily
if allowed to explore things that interest them
rather than what adults believe they should
study. |
 Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi believed
that the purpose of education was to expose the
natural powers and faculties latent in every
human being, and emphasized that the teacher
should never teach by words when a child could
see, hear or touch an object for himself. His
theories and methods proved so successful that
they still form the basis of elementary
educational systems around the world. |
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