It’s a curious claim, given that the journalist Rita Kramer published a biography, in 1976, that drew on the archive of the Association Montessori Internationale and interviews with Mario and ...

The first—Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)—was founded by Maria Montessori in 1929 in order to perpetuate her own work. Montessori started her first school, the Casa dei Bambini, in ...

The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano, Other Press, 248 pages, $28.99 Maria Montessori's ideas about education stem from the principles of choice, individual ...

There, Mario Montessori, natural son of the Italian woman who worked out the method, has carried on since her death in 1952 at 81. But when Head mistress Rambusch insisted on relaxing the strict ...

Maria Montessori, the physician and educator, may not be remembered as a feminist figure, but lived a bold life. ... Mario Montessori eventually became her collaborator in her studies.

W hen Maria Montessori landed in Madras (now Chennai) in October 1939, she was 69 years old, ... Mario Montessori. India was only supposed to be one stop on her international lecture tour.

Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870, in a four-storey house in Chiaravalle in the seaport province of Ancona, Italy. ... Maria gave birth to a child that she named Mario.

After getting married in 1969, the Fitzpatricks — both Angelenos — moved to Bergamo, Italy, to study with Mario Montessori, son of Maria Montessori, the Italian physician who pioneered early-childhood ...

Italian educator Maria Montessori in Rome in 1951. Her philosophy of child-directed learning was geared toward underprivileged students, but today it is often associated with upper-class schools ...