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MARIA MONTESSORI (1870-1952)
Doctor, philosopher and pedagogist Maria Montessori was one of the first women to graduate in Medicine in Italy in 1896. She became assistant doctor at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Rome where she developed a new teaching method to support the education of children with mental disabilities.
In 1907 she opened her first school in a poor neighborhood dedicating her work and researches to the children of working families; in that school – called Casa dei Bambini (House of Children) – she applied her method to mentally normal children between the ages of 3 and 6.
The school was a huge success and Montessori’s method – based on building a favorable environment, both physical and spiritual, to follow the children’s needs, and on specifically designed materials – became immediately famous worldwide; in less than 10 years, schools based on her method opened in more than 10 countries.
The popularity of the child-centered Montessori approach never decreased and is still very popular more than a century later and as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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