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erasofphilosophy · 2 months

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Unveiling the Visionary: Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Enduring Legacy in Education

Have you ever wondered how children learn best? What sparks their curiosity and ignites their passion for knowledge? Enter the remarkable Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator who revolutionized the way we view early childhood education.

Montessori Method: Mixed Age Learning!

Early Life and Inspiration:

Born in 1870, Dr. Montessori's life took an unexpected turn. Initially drawn to engineering, she defied societal norms and pursued a career in medicine, becoming one of the first female doctors in Italy. Her work with children with disabilities sparked a deep interest in their unique learning styles and potential.

The Birth of the Montessori Method:

In 1906, Dr. Montessori was given the opportunity to work with children from a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Rome. It was here, in a small classroom called the "Casa dei Bambini" (Children's House), that she began to develop her revolutionary approach to education, now known as the Montessori Method.

Cornerstones of the Montessori Method:

The Montessori Method centers around several key principles:

Self-directed learning: Children are encouraged to explore and learn at their own pace, following their natural curiosity and interests.

Hands-on activities: Learning becomes an interactive experience through the use of specially designed materials that stimulate different senses and encourage exploration.

Mixed-age classrooms: Younger and older children learn and collaborate together, fostering a sense of community and mentorship.

The Montessori Classroom:

Step inside a Montessori classroom, and you'll find a vibrant and stimulating environment. Instead of rows of desks, you'll see shelves stocked with specialized materials like geometric shapes, puzzles, and practical life tools like pouring liquids and fastening buttons. These materials are designed to be self-correcting, allowing children to learn independently through trial and error.

Beyond Academics:

While the Montessori Method incorporates traditional academic subjects like math, language, and science, it goes beyond rote memorization. Learning is presented in a way that is engaging and fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.

A Global Impact:

Dr. Montessori's ideas resonated with educators worldwide, and Montessori schools can now be found in over 100 countries. Her legacy continues to inspire educators and parents who believe in nurturing children's curiosity, fostering independence, and empowering them to become lifelong learners.

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postersbykeith · 2 months

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#quotes #Maria Montessori #everyone talks about peace #competition #cooperate #educating for peace

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millennialmontessorian · 1 year

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To my fellow Early Childhood educators, as we approach Earth Day here are some great books that discuss the importance of taking care of our beloved planet Earth!

🌍 Wangari’s Trees of Peace

🌎 We Are Water Protectors

🌏 Old Enough to Save the Planet

🌍 What a Waste

🌎 City Green

🌏 All The Colors We Are

#education #montessori #psychology #history #maria montessori #anthropology #cosmic education #philadelphia #teacher #ecology #environmental justice #childrensbooks #social justice #montessori education #early childhood education

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simply-sithel · 2 years

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On my sister’s request, I bound her a copy of The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori. I used the 1/3rd page layout on a PDF available from the Internet Archive [link]. The fabric, I feel, compliments the subject matter perfectly-- but more importantly, it’s fabric that I used recently in her daughter’s baby quilt. Gotta’ match those baby accessories! ✨

#only got about 1/3rd of the way through before I sent it off to her #very interesting read...#it's from 1949 so... you know... there's some ideas in there #and I think we know more about a lot of things since then #was happy to be able to reference it in conversation with a school teacher shortly after I started reading it #learning #bookbinding #little book #the absorbent mind #maria montessori

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quotefile · 2 years

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It is our object to train the child for activity, for work, for doing good, and not for immobility or passivity.

The Discovery of The Child, p.54 Maria Montessori

#The Discovery of The Child #Maria Montessori #Will #Discipline #Obedience

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krc-krc · 11 months

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I want to know what happened after 1952 that the Montessori concept got so fumbled.

Like Mrs. Maria was like yO Schools suck the life out of children and render them incapable to live. Let them learn through experience to have faith in themselves. And after her death everyone was How About We Make It So Educational And Quiet Because They Need To Prepare For The Boring Life.

Like who fucked it up??? Please????

#maria montessori #montessori #education

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 5 months

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Amare Montessori

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“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.” ― Maria Montessori

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kiki-de-la-petite-flaque · 1 year

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Tutti parlano di pace ma nessuno educa alla pace. A questo mondo, si educa per la competizione, e la competizione è l’inizio di ogni guerra. Quando si educherà per la cooperazione e per offrirci l’un l’altro solidarietà, quel giorno si starà educando per la pace.

Maria Montessori

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barefootbaltimore · 1 year

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"If we stop to think about the question we soon realize that all those who are undergoing education are isolated from society. Students must follow the rules established by each institution and adapt themselves to the syllabus recommended by the ministry of education. If we think about it we find also that in these schools no consideration is given to life itself. If the high school student for instance has not enough food, that is no concern of the school. In the recent past if there were children who were partly deaf, they were marked out by their receiving lower marks because they were unable to hear what the teacher said, but the defects of the child were not taken into consideration. If a child was defective in sight he also received bad marks because he could not write as beautifully as other children. Physical defects have not been taken into consideration until very lately and when this was done, it was from the point of view of hygiene. Even now, however, no one worries about the danger there is for the mind of the student, danger due to defects in the methods of education adopted. What school worries about the kind of civilization the children are forced to live in? The only thing officialdom is bothered about is whether or not the syllabus has been followed. There are social deficiencies apt to strike the spirit of young men attending the university and which do strike them, but what is the official admonition? “You students should not concern yourselves with politics. You must attend to your studies and after you have formed yourselves, then go into the world,” Yes. That is quite so, but education today does not form an intelligence capable of visualizing the epoch and the problems of the times in which they live."

Excerpt From: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori.

#okay go off Mrs. Maria damn #montessori method #maria montessori #education #school #ableism

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elegantzombielite · 1 year

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"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

Maria Montessori, educator (31 August 1870-1952)

#athoughtfortoday #maria montessori #teaching #teacher #education

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loveframe · 2 years

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Maria Montessori Quotes to Know about Child Psychology

Maria Montessori Quotes: Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was born August 31, 1870 and died on May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator. She is 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.

What hand does the mind remember? – Maria Montessori

The development of the mind comes through movement. – Maria Montessori

Joy is the evidence of inner growth. – Maria Montessori Quotes

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. – Maria Montessori

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. – Maria Montessori Quotes

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit. – Maria Montessori

We must support as much as possible the child’s desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. – Maria Montessori

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. – Maria Montessori Quotes

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. – Maria Montessori

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; “Help me to do it alone.” – Maria Montessori

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. – Maria Montessori

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. – Maria Montessori

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements. – Maria Montessori

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. – Maria Montessori

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements. – Maria Montessori

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind. – Maria Montessori Quotes

Maria Montessori Quotes on Peace

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori

Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes on Nature

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. – Maria Montessori Quotes

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature. – Maria Montessori

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes on Love

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. – Maria Montessori

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes about Teachers

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! – Maria Montessori Quotes

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. – Maria Montessori

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience. – Maria Montessori Quotes

…we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but by virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child. - Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes about Children

If assistance and redemption are to come, they can originate from the kids, for the children are males’ makers. – Maria Montessori Quotes

The most significant sign of success for an instructor is to state that the children are now working as if they did not exist. – Maria Montessori

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted. – Maria Montessori

If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help. – Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of successfor a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” – Maria Montessori Quotes

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes on Practical Life Education

The possibility of observing the developments of the kid’s psychical life as speculative responses and natural phenomena changes the school itself inaction into a type of science lab for the psychogenetic research study of guy. – Maria Montessori

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. – Maria Montessori

The most crucial duration of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to six. – Maria Montessori

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adjusts himself to the conditions of life. – Maria Montessori Quotes

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. – Maria Montessori

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. – Maria Montessori Quotes

There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society. – Maria Montessori

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes on Play

He does it with his hands, through experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.” ~ Maria Montessori Teach by teaching, not by correcting. – Maria Montessori Quotes

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play… it is work he must do in order to grow up. – Maria Montessori

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. – Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes on Education

It is precisely in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refines his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment. – Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori

The objective of early youth education must be to trigger the kid’s own natural desire to learn. – Maria Montessori Quotes

If education continues to be conceived along the same old lines of a simple transmission of understanding, there is little to be hoped from it to better the male’s future. – Maria Montessori

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