Maria Montessori Quotes
Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.
Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. Translated by Claude A. Claremont, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, p. 89.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally.