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In a Press Conference (1948) Maria Montessori announced her plans for a new Congress. We quote from the pertinent Communiqué on 8th International Montessori Congress.
Dr. Maria Montessori, the world-famous Educator, stated (…) ‘My life has been spent in the research of truth. I have scrutinised human nature at its origins, both in the East and in the West, through the study of the children and, though it is forty years now since I began my work, childhood seems to be an inexhaustible source of revelations and—let me say it—of hope…’
‘In my new effort to illustrate the contribution of a better humanity or society, I have asked the Association Montessori Internationale to organise a Congress in San Remo, Italy. The congress will take place from the 7-14 November* on the theme “Man's Formation in World Reconstruction” and I aim to invite all those interested in peace to take part in it. I feel the urgency that all forces should be united and used to avert from humanity the repetition of these catastrophes which become ever more terrible.’
*The 8th International Montessori Congress did not take place on the date mentioned, but was held from 22-29 August, 1949.
AMI is planning to publish the lectures delivered by Maria Montessori herself at that Congress in future issues of Communications.