Auto Education is self-education and is based on the belief that given the appropriate environment and materials with built-in control of error, children can educate themselves. (Boehnlein)

Needed are objects which induce “…polarization of attention and the repetition of action related to it.” (The Advanced Montessori Method, Volume I, p. 55) “The choice of what is internalized, and the different activities involved are determined by a child from within… this is why he must be offered what is necessary or useful for him and then left free to function independently. Maria Montessori originally used the term auto-education to designate this process.” (Montessori, Mario, Jr., Education for Human Development, p. 53)