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1870–1952 Italy

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italian educator, scientist, physician, philosopher, theosophist and feminist.

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Also known as: Joseph McVicker Hunt

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What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve a higher standard of culture. No, they must find a different point of departure. The adult must find within himself the still unknown error that prevents him from seeing the child as he is.

The Secret of Childhood (1936)

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