Chiara and her classmates with Ms. Davià. Trained with the Montessori method, Ms. Davià will teach Paola in the postwar, the youngest of Olivo's daughters, attending the Montessori section of the Ercolani schools. After being initially endorsed by Mussolini, the Opera Montessori and the schools using its methods were shut down by the Regime at the beginning of the thirties since they were thought to be opposite to Fascist education.