The Montessori Miracle Author:Maria Montessori In the first decade of our century, a group of four-year-old Italian most of them from semi-illiterate families, amazed the world of adult educators by demonstrating their ability to read and write. They were the first products of the Montessori Method of education, named after its founder, the remarkable Maria Montessori and destined to become... more » one of the great seminal forces in modern education.« less