Key and Montessori reached identical conclusions through separate methods
Evidence
The intersection with Maria Montessori is instructive, because the two women were working in parallel on the same problem without having read each other. Montessori opened her first Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1907 — seven years after Key’s book appeared. The core claims of Montessori’s method — that children learn through activity rather than passivity, that the prepared environment matters more than the instructor’s authority, that self-directed exploration is the engine of development — are structural parallels to Key’s arguments, arrived at through different routes. — , The Rod and the Child, 8794
Categorization
- XREF: Montessori parallels Key’s prepared-environment and self-directed-exploration claims. — connects to: Key and Montessori independently converged on identical child-centered conclusions — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8794