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Fantasy and Children

Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy

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The Importance of Refuge in a Montessori Classroom

"I'm not gonna do any fantasy in my classroom or aspects of culture that some people might call fantasy," she says. "What I would be looking for is the child who gets lost in fantasy." She talks to parents about how they deal with their children's fantasies, which can lead to lies and misdirections. 'It's like knowing the difference between what's real and what isn't real'

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