Ok... first of all, your boy Trump is a Mussolini fan:
Second, your link says Woodrow Wilson's quote was from 1909, well before Mussolini met Montessori - so if anything Mussolini was quoting Wilson, not the other way around.
barfo
Very good barf, I did post it backward. But look at that! The original National Socially took the queue from the Icon of American Progressivism.
Then the Next Icon of American Progressivism, took his queue from him, Mussolini, when implementing the NRA (National Recovery Act)
Popular historian Amity Shlaes stated:
"The NRA was the consummation of a thousand articles and a thousand trends. It was the ideas of Moley, the trade unions, Stuart Chase, Tugwell, Stalin, Insull, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Mussolini's Italian model all rolled into one."
Sort of funny though, how all these birds of a feather look to education to fill their vision.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
FDR
Now on the face of it, who can disagree? Not I and probably not you.
(However, it does remind me of Obama, chiding the class at Howard, vote give me more Democrats)
But I really don't think we should be educating children under control of the Federal government when the leaders have these sort of agendas in mind.
Education of children should be as individualist as possible to enable each child to become the best they can be as individual with differing aptitudes and strengths.
No mission at all in molding them to any agenda.