MARIA MONTESSORI, WHO IS SHE?
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MARIA MONTESSORI, WHO IS SHE?
“Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or
teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants - doing nothing but living
and walking about - came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole
of learning: would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems
so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination,
is a reality. It is the child's way of learning. This is the path he follows.
He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so passes
little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading always in the paths of
joy and love.”
~Maria Montessori
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Born in Italy in 1870
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Became the first woman in Italy to earn her
medical degree
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Had backgrounds in psychiatry, education and
anthropology
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Worked with both special needs and regular
education students
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Worked first with special needs children in the
psychiatric clinic at the University of Rome
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Spent two years working with mentally disabled
children who were thought not to have the ability to learn
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Had success with these children, who, after the
two years, passed an exam given normally to regular education students
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Proved that all children have the capacity to
learn
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Worked with regular education students in the Casi
dei Bambini where she was in charge of very poor, disadvantaged students
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Learned that these students craved attention and
had the natural desire to learn, make discoveries and educate themselves
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Worked first with special needs children in the
psychiatric clinic at the University of Rome
•
Spent two years working with mentally disabled
children who were thought not to have the ability to learn
•
Had success with these children, who, after the
two years, passed an exam given normally to regular education students
•
Proved that all children have the capacity to
learn
•
Worked with regular education students in the Casi
dei Bambini where she was in charge of very poor, disadvantaged students
•
Learned that these students craved attention and
had the natural desire to learn, make discoveries and educate themselves
•
“Like others I had believed that it was
necessary to encourage a child by means of some exterior reward that would
flatter his baser sentiments, such as gluttony, vanity, or self-love, in order
to foster in him a spirit of work and peace. And I was astonished when I
learned that a child who is permitted to educate himself really gives up these
lower instincts. I then urged the teachers to cease handing out the ordinary
prizes and punishments, which were no longer suited to our children, and to
confine themselves to directing them gently in their work.”
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~Maria Montessori
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