Maria Montessori Quotes
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
Montessori, Maria. Education and Peace. Henry Regnery Company, 1972, p. 24.
The irony was that it was by warfare that he conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands and formed them into a kingdom.
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally.