“Within the child lies the fate of the future”
Maria Montessori was a woman with rare determination, dedication, insight, and persistence. The feature which stands out most forcibly is that of a massive and unassailable strength of character – like a mountain unmoved by the storms which beat against it.
Montessori was one of those rare persons for whom obstacles do not seem to exist. “Character,” says Emerson, “is a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means.” No words could more aptly describe the influence that Montessori exerted simply by her presence.
She was a woman who stepped out in a time and place that it was certainly outside of the ordinary for a woman to do! The thing she decided to do was unheard of, preposterous, impossible. She was the first woman to attend medical school and the first female Doctor of Medicine in Italy.
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