All children are born geniuses. Their delicate sensing equipment is, as yet, untried. Yet humanity is also endowed with self-deceiving pride. Nature has her own gestation rates for evolutionary development. The actions of parents represent the checks and balances of nature's gestation control.
Humanity can evolve healthily only at a given rate.
Maria Montessori was fortunately permitted to maintain, sustain, and cultivate her innate genius. Her genius invoked her awareness of the genius inherent in all children. Her intuition and initiative inspired her to discover ways of safeguarding this genius while allaying fears of parents. But the way was not always easy.