Her own term for the pedagogy she created was 'Education as an Aid to Life', and education as an aid to life is applicable at any time, in any place, within all social strata, through public or private agencies, in settings rural, urban and remote. W hen Montessori principles are applied in the wider context of society, their possibilities are vast and all-encompassing. In fact, the first six-week session will take place in the summer of 1999 during the months of July and August. The International Study Centre S ince Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have been founded all over the world. Elementary schools were soon to follow and in the late thirties, Dr. Montessori gave clear and concise guidelines for the education of the adolescent, which, as yet, have not been implemented.
Infant communities exist as well for children in their first, second and third years of life.
I n 1947 Maria Montessori wrote a letter in preparation for a congress to be held in Italy. This letter contained clear and specific guidelines for the establishment of a University for the Science of the Formation of Man. These guidelines provide the structure for the Centre envisaged by the Association Montessori Internationale, the entity in charge of her intellectual legacy and therefore responsible for perpetuating her work in accordance with her directives. A proposal will be completed by the end of this summer and presented to various regional governments and ministries of education in Spain, the country where Maria Montessori originally desired to found such a centre. The Archives O ne of the most important mandates of the AMI is to safeguard and organise the vast amount of unpublished material left by Maria Montessori.