The Italian physician and educator opened her first school in Rome on this day in 1907 Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children ...

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 ...