Montessori and the Uncited Influence of Hegel

Steven Gimbel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, together with Anne Emerson, an educational researcher, argue that Montessori follows lines of reasoning that reverberate in philosophy.‘[I]nherent in the structure and content of Montessori's view of mind as she sets it out in great detail in her book The Absorbent Mind and in her pedagogical method as she sets it out in The Montessori Method, philosophy is there, specifically the historical dialectical approach of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.’