How Maria Montessori’s 7 years in India during WWII shaped modern preschooling
When Maria Montessori landed in Madras (now Chennai) in October 1939, she was 69 years old, a medical doctor, educator, and world-renowned thinker. She had been invited by George and Rukmini Devi Arundale of the Theosophical Society, whose leafy Adyar campus was a hotbed of spiritual, artistic, and intellectual exchange. With her was her son…