Maria Montessori, born in 1870, was the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree. She worked in the fields of psychiatry, education and anthropology. She believed that each child is born with a unique potential to be revealed, rather than as a "blank slate" waiting to be written upon.

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Montessori homeschooling A Montessori Homeschool Story. An interview of Michael Stephenson by Ryuichi Nakamura of Fukuoka, Japan for an article to be published in Japan.