independently, make his or her own
correction and avoid being told they
are wrong by the teacher, which can
trigger negative feelings in a child.
The initial Montessori materials are
ones developed by Edouard Seguin for
working with special needs children,
and were adapted by Montessori in
the early 1900s. You will often find the
identifiable Pink Tower in a Montessori
classroom. The Pink Tower, for example,
is not merely a tower of blocks of
increasing size, but instead is a carefully
calculated instrument to educate the
