She was a great teacher, an honorable educationist and possessed divine inspiration with her ideas, principals and methods.
She was the first woman in Italy to do a medical course.
In 1896 Maria Montessori became doctor of medicine and represented as the women of Italy at a feminist conference at Berlin. In the same year she also had chosen as the chairman of hygiene at the woman’s college in Rome.
In 1899 Dr. Maria addressed at the pedagogical conference at Turin and became the director of orthopedic school, Italy.
In 1900 she attended another congress in London, where she spoke against the exploitation of child labour.
In these two years she worked incessant ally with mentally deficient children, observed, studied and prepared aids and materials and after examination the success was astounding.
Then Dr. Maria started reflecting upon the normal healthy children back on a low level. The educational principal was “similar educational principles, if applied to normal children, would develop their personality in a marvelous and surprising way.
In 1901 Dr Maria gave up her work with mentally deficient children and started contemplating on the education of normal children and enrolled in the University of Rome as a student of psychology and philosophy as an unknown mission and in 1904 she became the professor of anthropology, in university of Rome.
Dr. Montessori got an opportunity to start an educational experiment with normal children so she took the laborers children and started casa dei bambini. Thus on the 6th January, 1907, Montessori movement started children house where she discovered that different children possess different higher qualities and normal children made a series of psychological revelations
Which formed the foundation for a new psycho-pedagogical method of education?
Dr Maria defined education as a loving help given during the period of fundamental