The Montessori philosophy founded by Dr. Maria Montessori is fundamentally a method of recognizing children as they really are and of creating an environment which will foster the fulfillment of their ...

Dr. Maria Montessori, who became Italy’s first female physician in 1896, was a pediatrician and visionary educator who revolutionized children’s education by creating a model that has stood the test ...

Few educators have had as lasting of an impact as Maria Montessori - an Italian physician and educator who opened her first classroom in Rome in 1907. Her unique teaching philosophy "was based on her ...

In the early part of the 20th Century, an Italian doctor called Maria Montessori developed a new approach to teaching, where children took responsibility for their own learning. In a Montessori ...

A classroom of 35 3-to-6 year olds might sound chaotic to some parents and teachers. But at Shaw Montessori in Phoenix, and the nearly 600 public schools that follow the educational model developed ...

Italian educator Maria Montessori in Rome in 1951. Her philosophy of child-directed learning was geared toward underprivileged students, but today it is often associated with upper-class schools.