Italian educator Maria Montessori in Rome in 1951. Her philosophy of child-directed learning was geared toward underprivileged students, but today it is often associated with upper-class schools.
When Maria Montessori docked in New York on her first trip to America in 1913, crowds greeted her ship and her arrival made the front pages. Montessori, Italy’s first woman doctor, was toasted as a ...
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano. Translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti. Other Press. 368 pages. $28.99. She hires the daughter of a custodian to ...
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