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Forbes: “The Future Of Education Was Invented In 1906”

by NWMontessori | Feb 19, 2014 | Of Interest, The Montessori Method

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...

Building the Pink Tower: Indie GoGo Campaign

by NWMontessori | Nov 6, 2013 | Of Interest, The Montessori Method

    Join us in supporting an important Montessori film. Please do not consider this a solicitation, but rather information about this project. Two Montessori parents set out to film a documentary about the school that changed their children’s lives, how they...

Maria Montessori, a bold life breaking gender boundaries

by NWMontessori | Dec 16, 2012 | The Montessori Method

(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...

Maria Montessori and 10 famous graduates from her schools

by NWMontessori | Dec 16, 2012 | The Montessori Method

(Originally posted by The Christian Science Monitor, Chris Gaylord) <i>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...

Maria Montessori: Follow the Child

by NWMontessori | Feb 16, 2012 | The Montessori Method

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...

Montessori: The Missing Voice in the Education Reform Debate

by NWMontessori | Feb 2, 2012 | The Montessori Method

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...
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