Learning Through Play
Maria Montessori
The Prepared Environment
Focus
Children teach themselves when the environment is ordered, beautiful, and sized for independence.
Key concepts
- Prepared environment
- Independence & self-correction
- Follow the child
- Concentration is sacred
In the classroom
Low shelves, one material per tray, everything a child can reach and return — so “help me do it myself” is the room's design brief.
See it in practice
Every Edfable simulation connected to this theory — and why it applies.