One teaching strategy that can improve students' retention of new material is to focus more on learning. With this teaching method, you can learn information by physically practicing the lesson instead of sitting in a chair all day. Maria Montessori underlines in the Montessori Method that children are treated like animals when they are fixed on a seat where they cannot move: "In a school where the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are each fixed in his place, the desk, explaining the useless wings of the sterile and meaningless knowledge they have acquired” (576). Hands-on learning also makes students more interactive and feel more engaged in the class and lessons. Hands-on lessons have students using all their senses to absorb all the information they are exposed to. For example, they use their sight to see all the materials they use to observe the lesson in action. They also used their hands to touch and feel the material while practicing the material or lesson. Students also use their hearing to hear instructions and to hear all other results of the hands-on experience. Other examples of hands-on learning might be labs in science lessons or math exercises that engage students in practice. This is the best way to engage the class in the topic and to help students retain information while having fun