Who is Maria Montessori
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ( MON-tiss-OR-ee, Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally.Life and careerBirth and familyMontessori was born on August 31, 1870, in Chiaravalle, Italy. Her father, Alessandro Montessori, age 33, was a...Read Full Biography of Maria Montessori
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- We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
- Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
- We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Ghizlenesehabi: "education is not a luxury, it is a necessity for survival." - maria montessoriJoiceap56: “discipline must come through liberty. . . . we do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. he is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.” –maria montessori
Tdwusavalues: maybe a picture is worth 1,000 words? but to be clear, chapter 28 of the absorbent mind by maria montessori defined love in the age 0-6 child in terms of what the child could develop into if we adults did not pollute his development with our sins and bia…
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Menaabo48: “discipline must come through liberty. . . . we do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. he is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.” –maria montessori
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