| Name(s) |
MARIA
Tecla Artemisia MONTESSORI |
| Date of
Birth |
August 31, 1870 |
| Date of
Death |
May 06, 1952 |
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Identity |
Italian physician and educator |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- January 06, 1907:
On this day, she opened her first
school and daycare centre for
working class children in Rome.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- She is best remembered for the
philosophy of education that bears
her name, and her writing on
scientific pedagogy.
- Her educational method is in use
today in several public and private
schools throughout the world.
- The Montessori Method of
education, developed by her, is a
child-centered educational approach
based on scientific observations of
children from birth to adulthood.
- This Method has been time
tested, with over 100 years of
success in diverse cultures
throughout the world.
- It is a view of the child as one
who is naturally eager for knowledge
and capable of initiating learning
in a supportive, thoughtfully
prepared learning environment.
- It is an approach that values
the human spirit and the development
of the whole child—physical, social,
emotional, cognitive.
- HER PHILOSOPHY SUMMARISED:
- Character formation cannot
be taught.
- It comes from experience and
not from explanation.
- Children are human beings to
whom respect is due, because
they are superior to us by
reason of their innocence and of
the greater possibilities of
their future.
- Education should no longer
be mostly imparting knowledge,
but must take a new path,
seeking the release of human
potentials.
- Free choice is one of the
highest of all the mental
processes.
- Growth comes from activity,
not from intellectual
understanding.
- Growth is not merely a
harmonious increase in size, but
a transformation.
- It is not in human nature
for all men to tread the same
path of development, as animals
do of a single species.
- No man exists who was not
made by the child he once was.
- Never help a child with a
task at which he feels he can
succeed.
- Of all things love is the
most potent.
- Respect all the reasonable
forms of activity in which the
child engages and try to
understand them.
- The child becomes a person
through work.
- The child is both a hope and
a promise for mankind.
- The child should live in an
environment of beauty.
- The child’s parents are not
his makers but his guardians.
- The hands are the
instruments of man’s
intelligence.
- To give a child liberty is
not to abandon him to himself.
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