maria montessori 1870 - 1952
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Maria Montessori 1870 - 1952. Maria Montessori was born in Chiarvalle, Italy August, 1870 Her family lived in an apartment on the second floor above a store front. Maria’s father, Alessandro Montessori Who was a civil accountant. Maria’s Mother Renlide Stoppani Encouraged her daughter - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Maria Montessori 1870 - 1952
Maria Montessori was born in Chiarvalle, Italy
August, 1870
Her family lived in an apartment on the second floor
above a store front.
Maria’s father,
Alessandro MontessoriWho was a civil accountant
Maria’s Mother
Renlide Stoppani
Encouraged her daughter to be an
Independent thinker
She was a great supporter of her daughter's career and an
important influence in Maria’s life.
1880 Maria at age 10
In her teenage years (1883-1886) Maria attended a technical school, studying science and math… boldly going where no girls had gone before!
Maria Montessori was the first Woman to graduate from Medical
School in Italy, 1896
She worked at a medical clinic, made house calls, and was assigned the
medical care of children in a mental institute.
It was the children in the mental institute that inspired her to seek
answers to the mystery of how children learn. After amazing results
with the children in the institute using sensory education techniques,
In 1898 Montessori was named Co-Director of the
Orthophrenic School, where they worked with mentally deficient children and trained teachers.
Dress made by one of Maria’s Patients
January 6, 1907
Inauguration of the first Montessori School
The Case de BambiniIn the San Lorenzo District of Rome, Italy
1913Maria Montessori wrote and published
her first book about her work withChildren.
English title, The Montessori Method
It sold 17, 410 copies in the first year of publication.
Montessori (in black) andher translator, Helen Packurst traveled extensively lecturing and training teachers.
She made her first trip to the US in 1913. She set up the first teacher training course in the US in California in 1915.
There was also a Montessori demonstration classroom set up at the World’s Fair in San Francisco, which won two awards.
In 1919 she established the first international course in England.
1915
Announcement of the
first International Course in England
Published in the Teacher’s World
in 1919
1919
What was the wonder due to? No one could state it. But clearly it conquered me forever, because it penetrated my heart as a new light.
One day I looked at them with eyes which saw them differently, and asked myself: “Who are you? Are you the same children you were before?”
And I said within myself: “ Perhaps you are those children of whom it was said that they would come to save humanity. If so, I shall follow you." Since then, I am she who tries to grasp their message to follow them.
1923, Maria Montessori was honored for her
work, receiving a Doctorate of Letters, for her expert work in the fields of psychiatry,
medicine, and anthropology
In the 1920’s and 30’s the Montessori approach spread world wide. Many of the leading figures in psychology and child development were influenced by her work, such as;
Jean Piaget, Erick Erickson, and Anna Freud.Photo taken in 1933
1936
In the late 1920’s the Montessori method became the official educational system in Germany and Italy under Hitler and Mussolini.
In 1933 Hitler closed all German Montessori schools and in 1934 Montessori was banned from her home country of Italy.
She established permanent residence in Holland in 1936, but considered herself a citizen of the world.
Maria Montessori and
her son, Mario, in 1938
In 1939, Maria Montessori was invited to train
teachers in India by the Theosophical Society
The first training course had over 300 attendees and in all she trained over 100 teachers while in India.
She started the first Montessori Elementary course while in India and studied Infants and Toddlers.
Maria and Mario (1940) spent the next 7 years in India, detained there during World War II.
The Educational Institute of Scotland confers upon Montessori and Honorary Fellowship, 1946
Montessori Spoke at the 10th international Conference, 1949, giving the first of many lectures on the “child as the constructor of
peace.”She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1949,1950, and 1951
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from
the children, for the children are the makers of mankind.
1950Montessori continued to lecture in Europe giving her
last public engagement in London in 1951 at the age of 81.
Maria Montessori died May 6, 1952. She was buried in Amsterdam.Her grave stone reads,
“I beg the dear all powerful children to unite with me for building of peace in man and in the world.”
To honor Montessori, many streets were given her name.
This tablet was placed at Montessori’s place of birth in Chiarvalle, Italy in 1965 to honor and remember her.
Mario Montessori dedicated his life to continuing his mother’s work until his death as President of the Association Montessori International
If education recognizes the intrinsic value of
the child’s personality
and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we will have the revelation of an
entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually
contribute to the betterment of the world.
Maria Montessori
Education and Peace