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It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.


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Maria Montessori (Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori) was an Italian physician and pioneer educator, creator of the Montessori education system. She was born on August 31, 1870 in the village of Kiaravale near Angona. Her family moved to Florence and later to Rome, Maria managed to be admitted to the medical school of the city despite the reactions of the established of the time. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in Italy, and during her studies she became so interested in the educational problems of mentally retarded children. From 1900 to 1907 she taught pedagogy at the University of Rome, and also continued her studies in Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy. At the end of 1906 she undertook the education of children in a slum of Rome, in 1907 she opened the first school called Children's Home, where she monitored the reactions of children on a daily basis, to shape her teaching method, which was reflected in her book "The method of scientific pedagogy ".

According to the Montessori method, the child participates in knowledge with all five senses and is educated without school coercion and bullying. The educator should never be imposed with fear or even with the volume of the voice, objects are used to understand the meanings of weight, colors, quantitative quantities and shapes, while various constructions utilize the creative and artistic appeal. Her education system was recognized in Italy and then in the rest of the world. For the next forty years she traveled uninterruptedly throughout Europe, India and the USA, opening schools that bear her name all over the world. In 1922, Maria Montessori was appointed government inspector of schools in Italy, in 1934 she was forced to leave the country due to Mussolini's fascist rule. He went to Spain from where he was forced to leave under the dictatorship of Franco, lived in the Netherlands from where he left in 1939 due to the dominance of Hitler's forces. In 1949 she returned to the Netherlands, where she lived until the end of her life, which came on May 6, 1952 due to a stroke.