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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was born in Chiaravalle Italy, in a middle-class family, Her parents were Renilde Stoppani and Alessandro Montessori.
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As an assistant at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Rome, she became interested in the education of children with mental deficiencies and applied experiments with 2 French teachers (Itard and Seguin), she managed to help children learn how to read and write
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She studied medicine at the University of Rome and became the first female doctor in Italy (She was the first female doctor in Italy)
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She founded her first children's house where she had small simple furniture that made learning enjoyable, almost like a game.
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In 1909 she gave her first Montessori Guiding Course. This first course was attended by people from everywhere. At the end of the course, she writes her first book "The Method of Scientific Pedagogy" There she establishes the development of the materials and the foundation of her method.
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Alexander Graham Bell and his daughter invited Montessori to the United States, and open the children's first home in that country. Schools in the USA multiply and the American Montessori Association is formed, It was led by Bell and Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson
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The Royal School of the Montessori Method is founded with the support of Benito Mussolini. Schools and training centers are multiplying in Italy. They also begin to appear in countries like Germany.
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in Barcelona (Spain) she develops methods for catechists (religion). The Spanish civil war begun, she flew from Barcelona and settles in Holland, where she starts his work again.
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When she lives in India, she develops work with the workshop children and starts Montessori primary school. She expressed then that the adult can only offer the child the necessary means and teach them, and the children must develop by theirself. Development is personal and no one can do it for another. At this time, her interest in children from 0 to 3 years was born
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When she lives in India, she develops work with the workshop children and starts Montessori primary school. She expressed then that the adult can only offer the child the necessary means and teach him to use them and that he must develop himself. Development is personal and no one can do it for another. At this time, his interest in children from 0 to 3 years was born
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In her last years of life, she participated notably and competently in the work of UNESCO and founded the Center for Pedagogical Studies at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.
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She was nominated to the Nobel Peace Award three times
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At the age of 80, she died in 1952, and left her legacy of being an educational reformer.
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