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Maria Montessori Live

By Maria Montessori
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Use all children's senses as tools for education. From Emile: If the child is educated to be a man, not a priest, soldier, or attorney, he will be able to do whatever is needed.
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    Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard

    Worked with Wild Boy of Aveyron. Advocated observation of children. Mind developed through education of the senses.
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    Eduard Seguin

    Developed graduated exercises to aid motor development in phrenesthenic children.

  • Alessandro and Renilde married

  • Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori born

  • Montessori family to Florence

  • Montessori family to Rome

  • elementary school

    Via di San Nicolo da Tolentino near Via Veneto.

  • Attends technical secondary school Regia Scuola Tecnica Michaelangelo Buonarroti

    enrolled in math/physics section - path to a university education. Wanted to be an engineer.

  • Attends Instittuto Tecnica Leonardo da Vinci

    access to math, physics and natural science; was barred from medical school because she had no background in Latin and Greek.

  • Enrolled at the University of Rome

    degree course in natural science.

  • Received diploma de licenza

  • Qualified for medical program at the University of Rome

  • Entered medical degree program at University of Rome

  • Becomes hospital assistant in pediatrics and psychiatry

  • First woman to receive medical degree from University of Rome (?)

  • Attended International Conference of Women in Berlin

  • Attended Turin Conference on juvenile delinquency

  • Surgical assistant at Santo Spirito Hospital

    Under Professor Ezio Sciamana. Worked with Giuseppe Montesano. Chose patients from lunatic asylums for clinical didactice activites.

  • Mario Montessori born

  • Scolo Magistrate Ortofrenica - teacher training and lab classes

    Used sensory materials developed by Itard and Seguin. Children able to pass exams designed for "normal" children. Clodomiro Bonfigli, president. MM and Montesano, councilors.

  • Enrolled for philosophy/psychology degree at University of Rome

  • lecturer in anthropology and pedagogy until 1910.

  • Conducted studies on the physical characteristics of the women of the Lazio region.

    Propensity for observation, clarity, precision and objectivity.

  • first Casa dei Bambini

  • Became interested in theosophy

  • Anna Maccherioni sets up Montessori school in Milan

    Lifelong friend and biographer.

  • first teacher training course in Citta di Castello, Italy

  • Montessori education officially adopted in Italy and Switzerland

  • First Montessori school in the United States in Tarrytown, New York

    Founder, Anne George.

  • Renilde Montessori died

    Maria reunited with son, Mario.

  • first international teacher training course in Rome

  • Alessandro Montessori died

  • Traveled to United States

    Traveled to United States
    aboard the SS Cincinnati

  • Invited to Barcelona, Spain

  • Set up model demonstration classroom at Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

    Invited by the NEA.

  • Refused demand of Catalonian government to support their independence.

  • Mussolini takes power in Italy

  • Giovanni Gentile (minister of education) official support of Montessori education

  • Military dictatorship in Spain

  • Opera Montessori provided government charter; Mussolini honorary president

  • AMI founded in Elsinore, Denmark at 5th conference of the New Education Fellowship

    sponsors: Freud, Piaget, Rabindranath Tagore. Collected percentage from schools and a per student fee for use of name and technique. AMI founded to oversee schools and societies, supervise teacher training, control rights of publication and production of materials.

  • Conflict with Italian government over Peace Education

  • Resigned from Opera Montessori and left Italy

  • Left Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

  • To England, then to Amsterdam

  • To India at invitation of Theosophical Society

  • Montessori training course in Madras (Chennai), India

  • Returned to Europe

  • Montessori Centre in Great Britain breaks with Montessori

    becomes St. Nicholas Training Centre. Margaret Monfray and Phoebe Child.

  • Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

    Also 1950 and 1951.

  • Died of cerebral hemorage

    Died of cerebral hemorage
    Buried in Noordwijk aan Zee "I beg the dear all-powerful children to unite with me for the building of peace in man and in the world."

  • U. S. patent office refuses to grant exclusive trademarn use of Montessori method.