It is the developmental work of the older child to mentally wrestle with those abstract concepts. Older children loved fairy tales and myths, because these stories deal with fairness, justice, and society.
Maria Montessori saw that while young children preferred concrete stories and experiences, this was not true for older children. She saw over and over again that it is the real world that mesmerizes the young child and it is his / her work to discover it and internally organize those discoveries. She said that she would try reading fairy tales to the younger children, but they would get up and walk away. Montessori learned from young children that they preferred stories and experiences that were based in the sensorial world around them. They leave fantasy stories to be the decision of each family, instead of including them in the general classroom. Montessori schools are concerned with providing the child with opportunities to explore the concrete world around him / her and then helping the child classify his / her perceptions of that world.
Often these images can be confusing to the young child, because the child’s brain does not yet discriminate and takes in all images as true facts. Fantasy is images that are not connected to the concrete world. These abstractions are creating when we are young children through our experiences with real objects in the world. Imagination is the name for the endless possibilities that humans dream up by mixing the abstractions they have put into their minds. Imagination and fantasy both refer to images held purely in the mind. The Difference between Fantasy and Imagination In essence, the young child is creating the base for his / her imagination through his /her interactions and discoveries in the real world. Once these images are organized in our minds, we are able to rearrange them into any creation we can dream up. However, the work of the young child is to organize the impressions he / she takes in, so she / he can recall a concept, like blue, solely in the mind. At first concepts, like color, are dependent on a physical object being in front of us. The imagination is based in our real images of the world and its characteristics.
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