And in 1907, the "first official Montessori School" (Ashby and Ohrn) opened in Rome and she began a "lecture tour, writing, speaking and teaching courses of teacher training" (Ashby and Ohrn). 1910, Maria's first book, The Montessori Method, was published, and by 1925 there were hundreds of Montessori schools throughout Europe and the United States closed for a while in Italy and Germany by Benito Mussolini "because of his anti-fascism" (Time), Maria continued to travel and spread her idea that "'We must fight for the rights of the child '"