The world will come.
It is not our words that do the work.
It is not us.
It is the children who open the door.
The children show the results.
~ Elisabeth Caspari, May 15, 2002
Do you know Elizabeth Caspari?
Elizabeth Caspari was one of the foremost experts in presenting the Montessori message for six decades. She studied with Maria Montessori in India during World War II and worked directly with her for the following four years. After the Second World War, Dr. Caspari came to the U.S. where she opened the Wee Wisdom Montessori School in Lee’s Summit, Missouri in 1947.
That was the first Montessori school to be established in the U.S. after the Second World War. She also founded the first Montessori Teacher Education Center in the U.S. after the War in 1948. Dr. Caspari educated and taught many teachers in Florida and throughout the U.S..
Among her many honors was the “Maria Montessori Lifetime Achievement Award” given to her in 1994 by the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE). She died when she was 102 years old, in 2002.
Her motto was: “Love is the Key.”
