Communication Author

Maria Montessori

Communication Order

317

Communication Issue

AMI Journal 1999/4

Communication Text

'The Child's Environment' lecture delivered by Maria Montessori in 1929 at the Vth International Conference of the New Education Fellowship in 1929 - the time and place when the Association Montessori Internationale was conceived.

"In a modern city one might exclaim: "But where are the children?" The schools are larger than the houses. They are like hospitals or prisons."