Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini ...

That's because Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori believed that children are innately curious and driven to learn from their environment. She observed that successful learning happens ...

Since then, the views of Maria Montessori, who died 50 years ago this year, have met with both worldwide acclaim and yawning indifference. Her method, which she developed with the children of Rome ...

When Italian doctor Maria Montessori got detained in India during World War II, she turned her unexpected stay into an ...

Montessori schools view children as explorers with different interests ... Montessori education was created by Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, whose work in a psychiatric ...

Jennifer Leonard, owner of Wunderkinder Montessori, cuts the ribbon during a recent ceremony, sponsored by the Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce. The Montessori Method of teaching focuses on the ...

"Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their colored blossoms." — Maria Montessori, "The Discovery of the Child" Invite children ...

Driven by anger and internal political compulsions, Israel’s leaders have chosen to ignore the message that Maria ... the children who have lost all semblance of childhood will fulfill ...