To Educate the Human Potential

This book is intended to help teachers to envisage the child's needs and based on the experiences at the Montessori schools. Montessori claiming that the average boy or girl of twelve who has been educated till then at one of our schools knows as much as the student of several years' seniority.

Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educationist, born in Rome, the first women in Italy to receive a medical degree (1894), dedicated to her life to learning how best to educate children-particularly the poorest, most challenged children-during their vulnerable beginnings.