Montessori's Discoveries

Maria Montessori was a physician, surgeon and head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rome. As she approached her 40th birthday, she discovered qualities of children that caused her to change her entire life, and to follow the child to the secrets of mankind that lay hidden within.

Watch as we review the momentous discoveries that made her change her life and that drive the expansion of the Montessori Method throughout the world.

Presenter: Mary Ellen Maunz, M.Ed., Founder and Program Director, Age of Montessori

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