Marie-Thérèse Maurette

Marie-Thérèse Maurette (September 28, 1890 – June 25, 1989) was a French educator who for twenty years (1929-1949) was the director of the International School of Geneva (Ecole Internationale de Genève, often referred to as Ecolint), the world's oldest international school.

Raised in the premises of the school of the rue d'Ulm, she met her husband; Fernand Maurette became a geographer and economist.

[2][3] She moved to Geneva soon after her marriage with her husband, who in 1924 joined the International Labour Organization (ILO) at the request of his former prep school colleague Albert Thomas.

She led the school as its Director from 1929 until 1949 and influenced its teaching advocating education for peace, based on respect and openness to others and with a strong international orientation.

In 1948 she published the main lines of her teaching following a request of the UNESCO in a booklet entitled "Do Education Techniques for Peace Exist?