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The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
by Cristina de Stefano, translated by Gregory Conti.
Other Press, 368 pp., £27.99, May 2022,978 1 63542 084 5 Show More
by Cristina de Stefano, translated by Gregory Conti.
Other Press, 368 pp., £27.99, May 2022,
“... her as the ‘most interesting woman of Europe’ and another wrote of ‘Montessori fever’. In Washington, she visited a Montessori school established by Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel. In New York, she gave a lecture at Carnegie Hall, which sold out; a thousand people stood outside in the street to see her. She was introduced by the philosopher ... ”