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Maria Montessori is born to Renilde and Alessandro Montessori in the province of Ancona, Italy.
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The Life of Maria Montessori
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Alessandro is transferred to Rome for work, and Maria benefited from better schools.
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Maria enters school at a time when many young girls were expected to stay home with their mothers.
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Maria enrolls at the University of Rome and studied physics, math, and natural sciences.
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Maria receives her Diploma di Licenza making her eligible to study medicine.
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Maria wins Rolli prize and scholarship.
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Maria earns her doctorate becoming the first woman to graduate from medical school in Italy.
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Maria is chosen to represent Italy at the International Women's Congress in Berlin.
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Maria begins to study education.
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Mario Montessori is born and sent away to be raised by another family.
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Becomes appointed lecturer in hygiene and anthropology at the Regio Institute Superiore di Magistero Femminile.
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Appointed director of school training teachers to work with "deficient" children.
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Maria abruptly leaves school.
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Maria is appointed anthropology professor at the University of Rome.
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The first children's house officially opens in San Lorenzo, a poor neighborhood in Rome.
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Children's House opens in Milan.
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The fifth Children's House, the fourth in Rome opens in a middle-class neighborhood.
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The Montessori Method is published.
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Anne George becomes the first Montessori trained teacher in the U.S.
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The English version of The Montessori Method is published in the U.S.
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Montessori visits the U.S.
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Mario Montessori is brought to live with his mother.
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A well-known professor of education, William Heard Kilpatrick, wrote a critique of the Montessori Method that some credit for the halt of the method's growth in the U.S.
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Montessori remains based in Spain due to the war.
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Montessori demonstrates her work at an exposition in San Francisco.
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Maria attends Mario's wedding in the U.S.
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Maria meets with Hugo de Vries, who coined the term "sensitive periods."
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After the war, Mario brings his family to join Maria in Barcelona.
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Maria returns to England after WW I to give a two-month training course.
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Mussolini honors Montessori and she is invited back to work in Fascist Italy
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The Association Montessori Internationale is established in Berlin.
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Montessori flees to Spain when Mussolini begins closing schools.
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All remaining Montessori schools are transformed into schools to educate a "Master Race."
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Maria moves to India with her son Mario to escape WW II and begin training courses.
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Montessori returns to Holland after the end of WW II.
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Montessori died in Holland and was buried locally.
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