Essential Montessori: an Introduction to the Woman, the Writings, the Method and the MovementThis guide by Elizabeth Hainstock, a leading Montessori authority, gives eloquent expression to Maria Montessori's ideas through her own writings. She presents a history of the woman and her movement, and develops a balanced assessment of the method as an established alternative and supplement to traditional learning practices. A few of the questions fairy and fully answered in this text are:, What makes the Montessori method different?, Are all