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Dr. Maria Montessori
Dr. Maria Montessori was, in many ways, a woman ahead of her time. She was born in the town of Chiaravalle, in the Italian province of Ancona in 1870. Upon her graduation from medical school in 1896, she
became the first female physician in Italy. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen to represent the country at two different women’s conferences, first in Berlin (1896) and then in London (1900).
In her medical practice, her clinical observations led her to analyze how children learn, and she concluded that they build themselves from what they find in their environment. Shifting her focus from the body to the mind, she returned to the university in 1901, this time to study psychology and philosophy. In 1904, she was made a professor of anthropology at the University of Rome.
Her desire to help children was so strong that in 1906 she gave up both her university chair and her medical practice to work with sixty young children of working parents in the San Lorenzo district of Rome. It became the first Casa dei Bambini, or Children’s House.
More than a generation has passed since the year 1907 when the name Montessori flashed like a comet across the sphere of education. Dr. Maria Montessori had a dream and hope that ours would be the century of the child. The passage of time has made that dream a reality.
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