Cristina de Stefano has a written new biography of Montessori, The Child is the Teacher. Come join us on Clubhouse tomorrow at 3p EDT for a discussion with her about the life of Maria Montessori and the story of her research. As a teaser, she’s given us permission to send along this excerpt from her book, where some of the first tensions in the US Montessori movement in the 1910s are starting to surface. The only other bit of context I’ll stall with: the biography is written in the present tense.