Forbes posted an article mentioning the significance of an age-old technique of teaching and pointed toward Maria Montessori as the source. Read more at the original article. In fact, the future of education was invented in 1906. That’s the year Maria Montessori, who...
(Originally posted in The Christian Science Monitor, Laura Edwins) Doctor Maria Montessori may have given her name to one of the world’s most well known education methods, but the woman behind the philosophy is not a well known feminist figure. In the early twentieth...
(Originally posted by The Christian Science Monitor, Chris Gaylord) Maria Montessori stands in many ways as the mother of alternative education. The Italian physician and teacher invented a new kind of school, one with self-directed learning, classrooms with mixed age...
Here’s a very interesting video uncovered by one of our Montessori teachers that chronicles the history of Dr. Maria Montessori and her development of the Montessori Method of education. Check it...
Original post by Laura Flores Shaw (Head of School, Oak Knoll Kinderhaus Montessori) in The Huffington Post Over a century ago, Dr. Maria Montessori discovered through scientific observations of children that they are not empty vessels to be filled — they are...