"The world of education is a kind of island where individuals, uprooted from the world, prepare for life by remaining strangers to it. "This radical criticism of schools by Maria Montessori led her to think about and experiment with a different pedagogy. L'esprit absorbant de l'enfant is Montessori's last book. She presents it as "a link in the development of our thinking and our work in defense of the strengths of childhood...
