31 August is special: the day on which Maria Montessori was born in 1870, in Chiaravalle. In 1936 she was interviewed on Dutch radio and she argued that, "Education should really start with the adult. It is necessary to awaken the public conscience. The entire world should rise in defence of the child, because he will be responsible for the good or bad in tomorrow's society. Already in many countries, for example, there is a Ministry for Childhood. I think that if there is a Ministry of Post and Telegraph, a Ministry of Communication, etc., it is much more necessary to have a Ministry for the defence and protection of the Human Race.
On this subject I have campaigned many times on radio and carried on a crusade for the social rights of the child."
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