Book 3, Part Three : Chapter 1, Size, Movement, Instinct, Reason Summary and Analysis

One of the most fundamental environmental preparations for the children at a Montessori School is something has fortunately grown to be quite common: the furniture is appropriately sized. With items made to their own scale children can relate to the physical elements of the atmosphere in the manner that more closely resembles the way that adults are able to relate to circumstances that are properly sized to them. This basic quality has happily been adopted by numerous schools throughout the world whether they are Montessori or not. This allows for a much more realistic set of learning conditions.

Next in this chapter, the author describes the activity in a Montessori classroom. In this way, many aspects of the situation are shown. The interactions of the children are...