A lot of quotes get attributed to Maria Montessori that she never actually wrote, and a lot of her real ideas get flattened into a single sentence on a poster. This category goes back to her own writing and her own history, the parts that get repeated accurately and the parts that have drifted from the source over time.
If you search for Maria Montessori quotes, you will find the same forty lines recycled across hundreds of pages. Some are real. Several are misattributed. A few are completely invented. No book, no lecture, no source. And almost none of them tell you what to actually do with the insight. This article does things differently. … Read more
Most introductions to Maria Montessori go something like this: Italian doctor, born 1870, opened a school in 1907, developed the Montessori Method, died 1952. What they leave out is the part that makes her story worth telling. She had a secret son she could not publicly acknowledge for fifteen years. She watched fascist governments burn … Read more