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Honorary Doctorate University of Durham
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On This Day, 31 August 1940
On 31 August 1940 Maria Montessori celebrated what would be the first of six birthdays spent in India. The 1940 day was an exceptionally celebratory occasion, as she was able to spend it with her son Mario, released from a Prisoners of War Camp, just for this occasion. She had not seen him for a numb...