Maria Montessori: The Real Story. Life, Ideas, Testimonials

In modern Russian education, supporting the humanistic attitude towards children and the development of variable pedagogical systems, the name of the Italian teacher, psychologist and philosopher Maria Montessori rightfully occupies one of the leading places. Our scientists compare her pedagogy with cultural and historical liberalism of the Silver Age, call her ally Diaghilev, Serebryakova, Picasso. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she put forward a bold idea of ​​serving a child. It is not to manage them as a helpless puppet, but precisely “the recognition that there is no better way to achieve peace on Earth than through the scientific education of children - by effort to protect the creative nature of man and help it develop their capabilities