Decentralized Montessori Education for the Sovereign Generation - Mercedes Gil Hernández | Ep. 146

Podcast: You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson · Efrat Fenigson

Opublikowano: 2026-06-29

Mercedes Gil Hernández is the founder and director of Montessori British School, a hybrid school offering on-site, virtual, and residential education. She spent years working in international banking before a growing concern about widespread financial illiteracy pushed her toward education. She discovered Maria Montessori's philosophy of independence and autonomy and built a school around it, starting as a traditional Montessori program in Spain before evolving into a fully personalized, flexible model where no two students share a timetable. In this conversation, we discuss about why she built her school from scratch rather than work within the existing system, h...