Alfabeto Montessori

A dialogue in two voices, in which Elena Balsamo’s poetic register alternates with Maria Montessori’s more technical-pedagogical one. Alfabeto Montessori is a book of reflections, almost ‘daily meditations’, in order to understand the most important, innovative and less known aspects of Maria Montessori’s thought and vision, but above all to be able to establish with her that spiritual contact that she used to make with the child and his audience.

Parents are not the child’s builders, but his keepers. They must protect and care for it in a profound sense, as one who assumes a sacred mission.
Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood