Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori

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guide and
enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would
awaken the childŐs potential. It was a radical departure In MontessoriŐs
time.

A new housing project was being built in a part of Rome. The
tenants of the housing project where day laborers who left their children
of five years of age home alone and unsupervised. Dr. Montessori was given
a room for the children in one of the buildings and named the director of
it. Up to 60 children stayed there during the day. On January 6, 1907,
the first Casa de Bambini, which is a ChildrenŐs House, was opened. Dr.
Montessori did not place children in restricting environments, but instead
designed them to reflect children. The rooms were set up like a house,
with the then-revolutionary ...

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