Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

She said Dr. Maria Montessori was her inspiration. “She desired a religious order, and she wrote about it in 1950, two years before her death, and she’d actually desired it to be called ...

After this course Dr. Montessori requested Joyce to continue helping her in India, but since her family was reluctant to let her go, she stayed on in Sri Lanka working for over 60 years, enjoying her ...