Richard Carroll on Nostr: > Montessori's idea of "liberty" makes little contact with that word as it was ...

> Montessori's idea of "liberty" makes little contact with that word as it was defined by Kant or as it is understood in northern Protestant countries. Montessori's "liberty" is that of Catholic tradition, which offers an absolute freedom to do what is right, but reserves to authority at all times the power of determining what is wrong.

This and the other excerpt from the introduction explains something that seemed a bit off in the other book,which emphasised the “liberty of the child” but also seemed very structured in the lessons and routines.