Dr. Maria MONTESSORI

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Dr. Maria MONTESSORI
By Thiru
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Birth and Childhood

• Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori was born on
  August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle (Ancona),Italy.
• Her father, Alessandro Montessori was an official
  of the Ministry of Finance
• Her mother Renilde Stoppani, was well educated
  for the times
• Her parents were posted in Florence were she
  went to public school in 1876. She was awarded
  certificates for good behavior in 1st grade and
  for "lavori donneschi", or women's work", the
  next year.

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Adolescence

• In 1883 she entered a secondary school called
  Regia Scuola Tecnica Michelangelo Buonarroti,
  where she studied Italian, arithmetic, algebra,
  geometry, accounting, history, geography, and
  sciences.
• In 1892,Maria received her diploma di licenza
  for botany, zoology and experimental physics at
  the University of Rome.

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Early career

• In 1896, Maria was the first woman to become a
  medical doctor.
• From 1896 to 1901, Montessori worked with and
  researched children experiencing some form of
  mental retardation, illness, or disability. At
  this time, that when she invented the Montessori
  Method. Unfortunately, the Government did not
  accept it by then.
• While working with children, she made the first
  Casa dei Bambini or Children's House

I love the Casa dei Bambini!
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Marriage (nearly)

• As Maria was in USA, she met a man and they fell
  in love with each other.
• A tragedy happened, on the wedding day. As Maria
  walked up the stairs of her house a man bashed in
  her and so she started hating men for the rest of
  her life.

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Famous Maria

• As Ms. Montessori became famous, she was invited
  to lecture in the United States of America,
  Netherlands and other countries in Europe. Even
  in Asia!

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Death

• Maria Montessori died in Noorwijk, Netherlands in
  1952.
• Since her death an interest in Dr. Montessori's
  methods have continued to spread throughout the
  world.
• Her message was always to turn one's attention to
  the child, to "follow the child".  It is because
  of this basic principle, and the observation
  guidelines left by her, that Dr. Montessori's
  ideas will never become useless.

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Without her

• It is very difficult to think what would be the
  current education systems without her immense
  contributions

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THANK YOU!