The critical role of quality education, starting in the Early Years, in a technology based world

About the Contributor:

Maccs Pescatore, CEO at Montessori Centre International

As MCI’s CEO, and influenced by the Montessori approach, Maccs is passionate about eliminating the attainment gap by making quality early years education accessible to all children, everywhere, and for education systems to nurture attributes that enable life-long development and achievement. 

She has extensive international, commercial experience from the profit sector having held a variety of finance leadership positions, mainly in multi-national FMCG groups, and from consulting projects.

Introduction to the Article

This article by Maccs Pescatore is a part of the Academic and Industry Paper titled: The Role of the Government in Education. Her article calls for governments to adopt the Montessori Approach in learning that allows a child to experiment; to try, fail, try again. This will help build a workforce that is creative, resilient and one that has problem solving capabilities, helping them see new technologies as tools to enable greater thinking and not threats.

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Maccs Pescatore, the CEO of Montessori Centre International is a part of the Academic and Industry Paper titled: The Role of the Government in Education and writes on the topic of 'the Critical Role of Quality Education'

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