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Maria
Montessori was born in 1870 in Italy and educated at the
University of Rome. She was the first woman doctor to hold a
chair of medicine in Italy. She was the top student in the
school. During the year she worked as an assistant doctor in
Rome with the children with disabilities, the children with
development-delayed and with learning difficulties. She was able
to meet, observe and do the research of those special-needs
children. She started the research then and created a wide
variety of special equipment for them and she was successful in
educating those children. They had acquired the basic literacy
and numeracy skills, and amazingly those children had past the
exam which was held in the normal elementary schools. When
everybody had still admired her achievement, she had already
moved on to the next question: why the normal child can not
achieve that which the disabilities can do? So she started her
first Montessori school- the Children’s House. In that school
she invented more materials for the normal children and she
found that those materials can be work in the normal child. They
can learn even better of course.
During that
time she acquired other degrees in Psychology and education. She
also went to lot of country. She had stayed in Germany, France,
Austria, England, America, Spain and India. Because of this
kind of background, she was able to combine the knowledge of the
medicine, the Psychology and education together. She saw the
children’s education through scientific angel.
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