Dr Montessori maintained that the classroom should not be teacher-centered, but child-centered.  The role of the teacher in a child-centered environment is not of one who leads, but one who follows, she insisted.  What did she mean by that?  Did she mean that the teacher would turn into a servant at the mercy of every whim and impulse any child would wish to satisfy at any given moment?  Certainly not!  Rather, she meant that in a carefully prepared environment, the teacher would be a keen observer of the needs that...

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