In the month in which we have celebrated Women’s Day, I present to you several women who have
had an important impact on education.

In October 2012,Malala Yousufzai, Pakistani girl, was shot by the Taliban when
I was coming back from school. Emergency transferred to the United Kingdom, doctors removed the bullet
of the head and after several months of recovery she was discharged. When
woke up in a Birmingham hospital, 10 days after the attack, he had become
a symbol not only in Pakistan, but all over the world.

Malala appeared at the United Nations and there proposed to the international community a
‘education for all boys and girls in the world’. “without quality, inclusive and
equitable for all and lifelong learning opportunities, countries
will not be able to achieve gender equality or break the cycle of poverty.

Since then, Malala has been a reference for humanity. He was a Nobel Peace Prize winner
year 2014.

“A child, a teacher, a pencil and a book can change the world”

Concepcion Arenal, graduate in Law, journalist and writer, was a prison visitor and
one of the pioneers of feminism in our country, convinced of women’s right to vote.
He deeply believed that education prevented crime and social marginality. Study
the condition of the prisoners in the prisons and denounced the poor state in which
they lived. It was a key piece for the education of women. From a very young age she expressed her
She wanted to study at the university and when she reached the age to enter they rejected her because
be a woman She had to disguise herself as a man, put on a cape and hat, and was for a time
until they discovered it. The rector gave him an exam thanks to which he ended up studying
right.

“open schools and they will close prisons”

Maria de Maeztu, born in Vitoria in 1881, was a pioneer in the fight for the education of
women in Spain, a work that she developed throughout her career as a teacher, from
which began in a humble school, located in the Las Cortes neighborhood of Bilbao, until its
establishment in Madrid, where she worked tirelessly so that the young women who came
to study in the capital could have the best possible university education.
“The old saying is true that the letter with blood enters, but it does not have to be with the child’s,
but with that of the teacher.”

Finally, María Montessori, a woman with an impressive resume who revolutionized the
educational system of its time and that made me completely rethink my vision of the child and of
what education should be like. Thanks to his inspiration, the International Montessori School was born.
of Sotogrande, because, like her, we are convinced that education
Montessori is the best weapon to prepare our children for the future and for life.

“The essence of Montessori education is to help the child in his development and help him to
adapt to any condition that the present requires”