Catherine L’Ecuyer

Catherine L’Ecuyer is Canadian, now living in Madrid. She has an MBA from IESE Business School, an Official European Master of Research, and a Doctorate in Education and Psychology. The Swiss journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience published her article “The Wonder Approach to Learning,” which made her thesis a new hypothesis/theory of learning. In 2020 she was named an honorary member of the Spanish Montessori Association (Association Montessori Española). She was invited to speak to the Education and Health Commissions of the Congress of Deputies of Spain, of the Parliament of the Comunidad de Madrid, of the Basque Country, of Québec and to the Second Summit on Education organized by the European Commission. She served as a consultant to the government of the state of Puebla in Mexico concerning preschool reform, was part of a task force for the Spanish government on the use of digital technology by minors, and participated in a report for CERLALC (UNESCO) on the use of digital media in childhood. In 2025, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad del Magdalena in Colombia.

She is a researcher and the author of many academic publications on Montessori education, neuromyths, tecnomyths, as well as several books and articles on the subject of education, including It Looks Better in 3D (the first book that questionned the use of digital technologies in childhood and adolescence, initially published in Spain), and The Wonder Approach, published in eight languages and 60 countries. In 2021, Editorial Espasa published her book Conversaciones con mi maestra [Conversations with my teacher], an essay in the form of a Socratic dialogue on the origin of the methods that are found in classrooms today. This book is now used as a textbook to teach educational theory in many universities in Spain.

She currently collaborates with the Mind-Brain Group of the University of Navarra and is a columnist for various news outlets, including El País, La Vanguardia, and El Mundo in Spanish and The Huffington Post in French. She is the founder and director of Fundación CLE, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting classical education that offers a Master’s program in Madrid.

Contact: agenda@catherinelecuyer.com