Getting started

Most shelves fail the same way: eight versions of one job. What you leave off decides more than what you buy.

The shelf almost never belongs in the bedroom. Where it goes instead is the whole trick in a small flat.

Both sides of this argument claim more than they can show. Offered both kinds of toy, children did something neither camp predicted.

Nobody owns the word, so any seller can use it. Here is the test we run on the toy in your hand.

The clearest difference is not the philosophy. It is what happens when a child puts the wrong piece in.

The first changes cost nothing, and not one of them is a toy. Montessori began with a room, and that is still where it starts.