MEET MARIA MONTESSORI, THE PHYSICIAN AND EDUCATOR WHO REVOLUTIONIZED THE EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD.

Maria Montessori is known today all over world for developing the Montessori system of education named after her. The Montessori framework is a child centred instructive approach in light of logical perceptions of children from birth to adulthood. Maria Montessori brought into existence Montessori system and still today, it is synonymous with pre-school education.

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Maria Montessori was born on August 31st, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, to Renilde Stoppani and Alessandro Montessori. In 1875 her family moved to Rome where young Maria entered a public elementary school a year after they relocated to Rome. In a period when the customary desires for ladies were just turning into a housewife, Montessori had different plans.

At the first place, Montessori had desires to become an engineer upon graduation, but after she graduated from secondary school despite the fact that her dad's desire was that she end up a doctor. She became the first woman to go to medical school and in July 1896 she was the first woman to become a doctor in Italy.

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Dr. Montessori after she graduated from medical school, within two months, she got a Doctorate of Medicine and she engaged with the Women's Rights development filling in as a delegate for Italy at the International Congress for Women's Rights in Berlin, Germany.

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After the International Congress for Women's Rights in Berlin, Germany, she returned back to Italy and began working as an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Rome where children with learning disabilities caught her interest.

Working with incapacitated and socially denied children, she built up her interesting strategy for training in light of the work of Jean Itard and Edouard Seguin, who had tried different things with the abilities of debilitated kids and made physical and tangible exercises to formative procedures.

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At the time there was nothing like the Montessori approach of teaching disabled children. Rather than utilizing the customary teaching strategies like reading and reciting, her idea was to instruct the kids to encounter the world by utilizing the five senses. She worked hard and soon could infer her techniques to children that didn't experience the ill effects of any disabilities.

This outcome Inspired her to establish the first Casa dei Bambini, or "Kids' House". Her one of a kind approach was produced through extraordinary logical perception of kids from numerous ethnic, social and financial foundations from birth to maturity.

Maria Montessori early classes in the year 1909

Dr. Montessori stated: "The most essential time of life isn't the time of University studies but the period from birth to age six". Today, it is regularly acknowledged that the early years are the most imperative years in a child's life. Amid the pre-birth period and the initial four years of life, the child creates 50-60 % of the insight and another 30% between the age of 4 and 8.

She gave her first ever instructional class in her new approach to around 150 students in the year 1909 and even wrote and published her first book. By 1910 Montessori schools were acclaimed around the world.

Italian 1000 lire banknote representing Maria Montessori

At the point when Mussolini came to control in Italy he shut all Montessori schools and she was compelled to leave Italy. She then relocated to Spain and from Spain, she moved to Holland.

In 1947 she went to India, where she developed a program called Education for Peace. While she opposed in India, she prepared, educated and created more than two thousand Indian Teachers. On three different occasions, Maria Montessori was mentioned for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, 1950 and 1951 respectively. She passed on May sixth 1952, in Noordwijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.

She died since 1952, but her legacy and impact in the system of child development still lives on and is still practiced till date. Her strategies encountered a recovery. The American Montessori Society was set up in 1960 and today there are more than 4000 Montessori schools in the U.S alone and more than 10,000 around the world.

REFERENCES

• https://amshq.org/Montessori-Education/History-of-Montessori-Education/Biography-of-Maria-Montessori

• https://montessori.org.au/biography-dr-maria-montessori

• http://www.dailymontessori.com/dr-maria-montessori/