How is Skinner's programmed instruction theory similar to Montessori's beliefs?

Skinner's operant conditioning theory offers that behavior
can be achieved through a series of processes that involve motivation, reinforcement,
and feedback until the behavior can be achieved without the consistent application of
such interventions.

Montessori and OPT are similar in that
they both place importance in the individual need to achieve a specific behavior and how
to manage it independently. For example, Montessori and Skinner would agree in that
students must become independent learners with incremental processes of instruction
where they can expand their horizons, and considering the developmental appriopriateness
of the activity.

They are different, however, in that
Skinner's philosophy depends much on an initiator consistently monitoring the intervals
of reinforcement whereas Montessori uses less intervals of interventions by an
adult.