What is the main conflict in Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work by E. M. Standing?

This is the autobiography of one of the most powerful women in the world of modern education. Her lifetime crossed the threshold of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Montessori schools and educational system are a well known alternative and supplement standardized teaching methods currently in use throughout the world. It has been found to be more enjoyable for many hands on oriented learners, and thereby more effective. The teaching method which will be explained throughout the autobiography has also been famed for helping many children learn despite learning disabilities, thus bringing into full functionality what might otherwise have been lost.