Maria Montessori

  • Birth

    Maria Montessori was born
  • Doctorate

    Became first Doctor of Medicine in Italy
  • Director Status

    Appointed director of a school that trained teachers to teach children with disabilities
  • Teaching time

    Began her Education degree Began psychology and anthropology experiements
  • First school

    Opened first Montessori school in Rome
  • Second school

    Second school opens and is ran by Anna Maria Maccheroni
  • First training and first book

    Holds her first training for 100 students Writes first book Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all’educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini.
  • Second book

    Pedagogical Anthropology
  • On to the US

    Montessori Education Association is founded in the US.
    There were already schools in the country at this time.
  • Period: to

    International training courses

    Maria Montessori leads many training courses all around the world with plenty of lectures and book publishings
  • Ghandi

    Ghandi visits montessori schools in Rome
  • Nazis

    The Nazis destroy the Montessori system in Germany and closes all schools
  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Nominated for the first time. Nomimated again in 1950 and 51
  • Dies

    Maria Montessori dies in the Netherlands