Everything in its Place: In Northwest Arkansas, a design firm responds to a hemmed-in site for a Montessori elementary school with a playfully inventive plan.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Maria Montessori wrote, “Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.” The line paints in broad strokes the educational philosophy that bears her name, with its emphasis on independent, creative, and hands-on learning over classical rigid instruction. But when Victoria Butler, owner of a thriving Montessori school in Northwest Arkansas, decided to add an elementary school to her primarily early-childhood program, she found that the city of Fayetteville had a more traditional, textbook-like approach to rules and regulations.
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