With the Montessori talk:
Don’t forget why Maria Montessori was exiled in India during the war.
She was a fascist.
“in 1934 this world famous physician and educator, who was in her early sixties and had been practical dictator of educational method in Fascist Italy for almost a decade and an intimate of Benito Mussolini since 1924, “discovered” that Fascism was a brutal totalitarian system not compatible with the Montessori Method. Surely these years were the most historically fascinating parts of her life, yet almost no one has found it worth mentioning. Go to the public library and read the different biographies of Maria Montessori in the reference section. Read books about the Montessori Method. Surf the internet for information on Montessori. Go even to those websites that sell old books and enter “Montessori” as a keyword or title. The books about her romance with Fascism have been burned. A remarkable woman, a brilliant woman, a leader in the whole grand field of education and, in many ways, a decent and sincere woman who advocated open and critical questioning as a method of education has had a closed and uncritical dogmatic entombment of her life, so that those uneducated about her life are expected to accept by rote and rigid memorization the mandatory viewpoint that her life and her work were good and right.
This is how the Left works. That crucial fact of her long life – the twelve year love affair that Montessori had for Fascism and that Fascism had for Montessori – has been blithely ignored. The innocent seeker of truth, searching for the real biography of Montessori, will find a memory hole when he reaches the most important part of her life. Her genuine biography is too destructive to Leftism, so the half the pages in her biography have been ripped out of the book and cast into the flames. The Left is always indifferent to facts and to truth. It is only interested in power. Lying and concealing without conscience are an easy way to defeat an honorable opposition. So the Left lies about nearly everything. Maria Montessori is a perfect example of how the Left works.”
https://canadafreepress.com/article/maria-montessori-and-the-memory-hole