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 ...

This learning method was created by Dr. Maria Montessori in the early 1900s to encourage greater creativity and exploration among children, all while helping them gain essential life skills.

Santa Cruz Montessori, a school for children 18 months to 14 years, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The school was founded in 1964 by a group of parents looking for preschool for their young ...

Maria Montessori, an Italian educator, opens the school Casa dei Bambini (translated as Children’s House) in Rome. There, she introduces her methods for teaching children, focused on self ...

(Maria Montessori) incorporated as many of the senses in each one of her (toys) so that you would be able to learn the way you can learn the easiest," Barb Broach said. "We set children up for ...

Pioneers of Montessori education such as Hilda Rothschild and Nancy Rambusch introduced to Cincinnati the teaching methods of Maria Montessori ... learning led by the children at their own ...

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 ...