ABOUT MARIA MONTESSORI

 Montessori Education is a method of teaching started by Dr. Maria Montessori in 1906. She was the first female physician in Italy. She later became a world renowned educator and psychologist. She did a lot of research in early childhood development. She came to believe that the family unit and the school play an important part in early childhood.

During her work as a physician, she worked with under-privileged and retarded children and found that she could get some of them to a higher level of  development to be in a normal school with normal kids.

She went on to develop specially prepared materials to help the child develop his physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual potential to the fullest.

Dr. Maria Montessori’s invaluable work and discoveries are still in practice today. There are numerous Montessori schools around the world, each carrying on her profound methodology to help in the education of young children.