Question 1

August 31, 1870 | Italy

Accepted Answer

Maria Montessori was born as the only child of Alessandro and Renilde Montessori on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle (Province of Ancona, Italy).

Question 2

Study period in Rome

Accepted Answer

Because her scientific talent was obvious, after elementary school she attended a technical school for boys, fought for a place to study medicine after graduation, and became the first female doctor in Italy in 1896.

Question 3

Assistant Physician

Accepted Answer

At the psychiatric clinic in Rome, she recognized that the care of mentally and learning disabled children was not only a medical problem, but also an educational one. She researched ways to help mentally impaired children through sensory education and to give them learning incentives through independence with specifically developed didactic materials. With success.

Question 4

Birth of Son Mario

Accepted Answer

1898, she had her son Mario from a relationship with physician Giuseppe Montesano. Since she would have been professionally limited as a single mother, she initially placed him in foster care but maintained regular contact and took him back permanently at age fifteen. Mario became her close companion and continued her life's work after her death.

Question 5

Research and Science

Accepted Answer

She also studied psychology, pedagogy and philosophy and looked for an opportunity to apply her findings and experience to healthy children. This came when a housing cooperative renovating buildings in a run-down neighborhood sought someone for the care of neglected preschool children.

Question 6

The first Children's House in San Lorenzo | 1907

Accepted Answer

Montessori taught the children how to use the sensory materials she had developed and otherwise let them work freely. Maria Montessori herself was at that time a pediatrician and professor of anthropology at the University of Rome and came regularly to observe.

She describes the key experience of her observation and the beginning of her full dedication to pedagogy in her book "The Secret of Childhood" (5,119): She observed a child who was completely absorbed in an activity and, after the work cycle ended, appeared transformed: more joyful, freer, more independent.

Question 7

International Expansion

Accepted Answer

In 1909, she gave up her practice as a pediatrician and devoted herself entirely to the training of educators, female and male teachers for Montessori children's houses and schools, which soon were founded in large numbers in many countries.

Question 8

World War II

Accepted Answer

World War II and totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy and Spain partially destroyed her flourishing life's work, but she immediately began working in Europe again in 1949.

Question 9

May 6, 1952

Accepted Answer

A few months before her 82nd birthday, Maria Montessori died in Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

A LIFE
FOR THE CHILDREN

Feature film trailer – inspired by Maria's life

Montessori Pedagogy Explained in Motion

Fundamental Ideas & the History for Reading

Who was this woman whose life's work has borne such fruit?

August 31, 1870 | Italy

Study period in Rome

Assistant Physician

Birth of Son Mario

Research and Science

The first Children's House in San Lorenzo | 1907

International Expansion

World War II

May 6, 1952

MONTESSORI SCHOOL SEETAL

PARTNERS

A LIFE FOR THE CHILDREN

Feature film trailer – inspired by Maria's life

Montessori Pedagogy Explained in Motion

Fundamental Ideas & the History for Reading

Who was this woman whose life's work has borne such fruit?

August 31, 1870 | Italy

Study period in Rome

Assistant Physician

Birth of Son Mario

Research and Science

The first Children's House in San Lorenzo | 1907

International Expansion

World War II

May 6, 1952

MONTESSORI SCHOOL SEETAL

PARTNERS

A LIFE
FOR THE CHILDREN