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Mar 2023
49m 58s

60 Years in Montessori - Mrs. Beverley M...

Jesse McCarthy
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A conversation with one of the most experienced Montessorians alive today.

Mrs. Beverley McGhee is 94 years young and began in Montessori in the 1960s, when she and her husband started Alexander Montessori School in Miami, Florida.

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