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Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, in the province of Ancona, Italy.
Montessori was the first female Italian physician in the modern
era. As such, she was given a "menial" task: to try
to educate the "idiots" and the "uneducable" in
Rome. She opened her first school, in Rome, on January 6, 1907.
The Montessori Method of education that she derived from this
experience has subsequently been applied successfully to children
and is quite popular in many parts of the world. Despite much
criticism of her method in the early 1930s-1940s, her method
of education has
been applied and has
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1907, Montessori had established the first Casa dei Bambini, or Children's
House, in
Rome.
By 1913, there was an intense interest in her method in North America,
which later waned. (Nancy McCormick Rambusch revived the method in
America by establishing the American Montessori Society in 1960.)
Montessori was exiled by Mussolini to India for the duration of World
War II, mostly because she refused to compromise her principles and
make the children into soldiers. Montessori lived out the remainder
of her life in the Netherlands, which is now the headquarters of
the AMI, or Association Montessori International. She died in Noordwijk
aan Zee. Her son Mario headed the AMI until his death in 1982.
(Courtesy
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