Maria Montessori was always a little ahead of her time. The Montessori method changed my life and view of education forever! At age thirteen, against the wishes of her father but with the support of her mother, she began to attend a boys' technical school. After seven years of engineering she began premed and, in 1896 became a physician. On developing and using the Montessori Method with your children she writes. "Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul…