maria montessori

     

Born near Ancona in 1870, she was Italy's first woman to get a medical degree & taught kids in a new way

Trivia about maria montessori

  • The 1st female med school grad in Italy, she revolutionized methods of teaching young children
  • In 1907 she opened her first Casa Dei Bambini
  • In 1922 she became a government inspector of schools in Italy
  • In 1909, 2 years after introducing her teaching method in Rome, she wrote a book about it
  • During the 1920s she was a government inspector of schools in Italy