The 1960’s was the era of hope. In fact, we were going to wage war on poverty. The Head Start Program was in its infancy, and believe it or not, Montessori was the motivation for the movement. Some of the first Head Start Preschools were Montessori based.
Because Dr. Montessori was so effective with her Chidrens’ House in the Rome slums, her experimental results were to be the proto type for Head Start. I don’t know what happened to the Montessori based Head Start Program, but it is coming back again in the Denver Head Start Program.