To foster creativity, Montessori realized that the environment must itself be beautiful, harmonious, and based on reality in order for children to organize their perceptions of it. Then they are capable of selecting and emphasizing those processes necessary for creative endeavors. Children, therefore, need freedom to develop creativity - freedom to select what attracts them in their environment, to relate to it without interruption and for as long as they like, to discover solutions and ideas and select answers on their own, and to communicate and share their discoveries with others at will.
Creativity is involved with the intellectual as well as the aesthetic processes of the mind.
Children in the Montessori classroom are free from judgment by an outside authority that so inhibits the creative impulse.