John Dewey and Maria Montessori both agreed on the principles of effective education. That is: learning is not from receiving information, children themselves form images by working with materials, learning is like going through life—knowledge earned from working with materials is a physical and psychological change, and learning is through interactions with environment. Even though Montessori was focusing on individual’s skills and development, Dewey was concentrated on group approaches. Both human experiments on education were able to prove that students learn better working with materials on hands, rather than teachers lecturing their knowledge on students.
