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Montessori materials are NOT toys, but educational materials. Proper use requires appropriate training.
Montessori materials may contain small, rough, sharp, or other elements that could cause injury or damage if used improperly.
It may therefore only be used by children under the supervision of appropriately trained persons and in an appropriate environment.
Hildegard Holtstiege examines the anthropological principles in the thinking and practice of Maria Montessori's pedagogy. It gathers the thoughts scattered about this topic in the works of Montessori, arranges them and contrasts the individual basic ideas with an exemplary selected text from the relevant anthropology discussion. It shows that Montessori developed ideas on this topic at the beginning of the century, which can be found in the current discussion.