Maria Montessori's dark legacy: Researcher calls for reappraisal of the educational icon's ideas. Sabine Seichter is a professor of educational science at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
She researched the thinking of the woman who is now known worldwide as a reform educator. Today's daycare centers and schools may not have much in common with these original ideas, but they advertise with this lucrative label. They say:Montessori advocates exclusion, not inclusion.