Maria Montessori biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Maria Montessori

Author Name:

Maria Montessori

Born As:

Maria Montessori

Other Names:

Born:

1870

Died:

1952




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Physician and pioneer educator                          
                          
Mother Renilde Stoppani
Father Alessandro Montessori                          
First female to graduate from the University of Rome Medical School, becoming the fdirst female doctor in Italy.

Member of the University's Psychiatric Clinic and became intrigued with trying to educate the "special needs or "unhappy little ones."

The first Montessori School in Rome, was opened on January 6, 1907, and which was called "Casa dei Bambini" or Children's House.

The success of this school was the beginning of the opening of many more schools, and a worldwide interest in Montessori's methods of education.                          
At age  thirteen,  Maria attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for becoming an engineer.

Montessori was exiled by Mussolini because she refused to compromise her principles and make the children into soldiers.