Maria Montessori in 1951 at Unesco

Maria Montessori said in her speech before the first meeting of UIE’s Governing Board in 1951:
“If the Institute is justified in existing, then it is only in pioneering a new path for education, that is to say one for education as a support to the inner life of man … the school should not be the objective of this Institute but people, the whole person, and this person begins at birth”