Inside a Montessori classroom, kids don’t just have autonomy to choose their activities. They also have the autonomy to fix the problems they encounter. If they spill something, or drop something, or make a mess, they don’t look for an adult to help them. They find the materials they need - kept somewhere accessible and reachable for them - and clean up the mess on their own. Montessori teaches self-direction and agency, and that agency applies to everything, not just the picture-perfect but als