Wednesday, May 30, 2007

What exactly is Montessori education?

 
 

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What exactly is Montessori education?

via Slate Magazine - Family by Emily Bazelon on May 19, 2007

When Maria Montessori docked in New York on her first trip to America in 1913, crowds greeted her ship and her arrival made the front pages. Montessori, Italy's first woman doctor, was toasted as a revolutionary educator. By the end of her visit a few weeks later, "It seemed reasonable to suppose that American education would never be the same again," Rita Kramer writes in Maria Montessori: A Biography.

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