Maria montessoris biography
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Maria Montessori
Italian pedagogue and physician (–)
For the film, see Maria Montessori (film).
Maria Montessori | |
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Portrait of Montessori, artist and date unknown | |
| Born | Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ()31 August Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy |
| Died | 6 May () (aged&#;81) Noordwijk, Netherlands |
| Resting place | Noordwijk, Netherlands |
| Education | University of Rome La Sapienza Medical School |
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| Known&#;for | Founder of the Montessori method of education |
| Children | 1 |
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (MON-tiss-OR-ee; Italian:[maˈriːamontesˈsɔːri]; 31 August &#;– 6 May ) was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education (the Montessori method) 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
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Biography of Dr. Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was born on the 31st August in the town of Chiaravalle, Italy. Her father, Alessandro, was an accountant in the civil service, and her mother, Renilde Stoppani, was well educated and had a passion for reading.
The Montessori family moved to Rome in and the following year Maria was enrolled in the local state school. Breaking conventional barriers from the beginning of her education, Maria initially had aspirations to become an engineer.
When Maria graduated secondary school, she became determined to enter medical school and become a doctor. Despite her parents’ encouragement to enter teaching, Maria wanted to study the male dominated field of medicine. After initially being refused, with the endorsement of Pope Leo XIII, Maria was eventually given entry to the University of Rome in , becoming one of the first women in medical school in Italy. Despite facing many obstacles due to her gender, Maria qualified as a doctor in July
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The Child Is the Teacher
A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.
Born in in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children—the accepted destiny for all women of her milieu in late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome—and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career.
At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the condition of children in the slums of Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the