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Maria Montessori is best known today for the method of education she originally developed to teach underpriviliged children in urban slums. Montessori observed that these presumed “feeble-minded” children were inherently gifted with an “absorbent mind” and would flourish in prepared environments with age sensitive activities that involve exploration, manipulations, order, repetition, abstraction, and communication.
Montessori, the first woman to earn a medical degree in Italy (1896), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, 1950, and 1951. Montessori died 5-6-1952. The year 2007 marked the 100th anniversary of Montessori education.
“The child should not be regarded as a feeble and helpless creature whose only need is to be protected and helped, but as a spiritual embryo, possessed of an active psychic life from the day that he is born and guided by subtle instincts enabling him to actively build up the human personality. And since it is the child who becomes the adult man, we must consider him as the true builder of mankind.” Dr. Maria Montessori (more Montessori quotes)
The Creative Process publishes and distributes this portrait of Maria Montessori in poster, notecard, and bookmark formats with the quote “Within the child lies the fate of the future.”
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Madonna of the Seggiola, Raphael, Florence
“Among the pictures in our ‘Children's House’ in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's “Madonna della Seggiola”, and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the ‘Children's Houses’ from The Montessori Method, Artwork in a Montessori Environment, Chapter 4, by Maria Montessori
• peace & justice posters
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Famous people who attended Montessori schools:
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
b. 3-6-1927; Aracataca, Colombia
Gabriel “Gabo” García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts”.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez quotes ~
• “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
• “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
• “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
• “Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”
• “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
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• One Hundred Years of Solitude poster
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Famous people who chose Montessori schools
for their own children:
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Shari Lewis
b. 1-17-1933; NYC
d. 8-2-1998; California
Ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host Shari Lewis is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop (who was introduced to the world in March 1956 in a guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo).
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Cher, née Cherilyn Sarkisian
b. 5-20-1946; CA
Sonny and Cher Bono's daughter attended a Montessori school - “I felt much more at ease with myself at the Montessori school. The teachers gave me a lot of individual attention and encouraged creative thinking, and I began to build up my confidence again. My awkwardness with feeling different lessened, and I became more comfortable with myself. I still look back on Montessori as one of the most positive experiences of my life.” Chastity Bono, Family Outing: A Guide
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Famous people associated with Montessori education -
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Alexander Graham Bell
b. 3-3-1847, Scotland
d. 8-2-1922, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori and helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the US.
• hearing / ears posters
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Kees Boeke
b. 9-25-1884; The Netherlands
d. 7-3-1966
Kees Boeke, who trained as an architect, is best remembered as a Quaker missionary, WWI pacificist who was a cofounder of an organization that later evolved into War Resisters' International, and educator associated with Montessori methods.
In his 1957 essay/book Cosmic View he presents the universe from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and as the founder of “De werkplaats” (the workshop) school, he introduced his idea of sociocracy where students are co-responsible with teachers for their curriculum.
FYI -
• The Cosmic View was the inspiration of several films - Charles & Ray Eames' The Powers of Ten, Cosmic Zoom by the Canadian Film Board, and Cosmic Voyage .
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R. Buckminster Fuller
b. 7-12-1895; Massachusetts
d. 7-1-1983
Bucky Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, poet and visionary. He wrote in his foreward to Mario Montessori's Education for Human Development -
“All children are born geniuses. 9999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently, degeniused by grown-ups. .... Maria Montessori was fortunately permitted to maintain, sustain, and cultivate her innate genius. Her genius invoked her awareness of the genius inherent in all children. Her intuition and initiative inspired her to discover ways of safeguarding this genius while allaying fears of parents. But the way was not always easy. Hers was the difficult frontiering task of genius.”
• Critial Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Fuller Projection Global Map - Our Spaceship Earth
• ecology posters
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Helen Keller
b. 6-27-1880; Tuscumbia, AL
d. 6-1-1968
Montessori dedicated her Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook to Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Suliivan, “seeing in the teacher-learner team the crystallization of her new pedagogy. . . . shifted the locus of her (Sullivan) teaching from the cognitive to the experiential . . .”
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Samual Sidney McClure
b. 1857; County Antrim, Ireland
d. 1949; NYC
S. S. McClure was a poor immigrant child brought up by his widowed mother in Indiana. He worked his way through college, and became a key figure in muckraking journalism founding McClure's Magazine in 1893.
McClure introduced Maria Montessori and her teaching methods to North America in 1911 through his magazine. Eventually the ambition of McClure to be the exclusive marketing representative of Montessori clashed with her desire to control her methods and materials.
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Margaret Woodrow Wilson
b. 4-16-1886; Georgia
d. 2-12-1944; Pondicherry, India
Margaret Wilson, remembered for singing for AEF in World War I Europe, was the eldest of three daughters of President Woodrow Wilson. She also trained as a Montessori teacher and established a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during Wilson's presidency. Margaret Wilson was interested in Eastern spirituality and helped Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth) edit the Nikhilananda's translation of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. She also joined the ashram of Sri Aurobindo where she helped type and edit his writings.
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Alice Waters
b. 4-28-1944; New Jersey
Chef and restaurateur Alice Waters was trained as a Montessori teacher.
From the back cover of Edible Schoolyard: More than a decade ago, Alice Waters, a small group of teachers and volunteers, and a school principal, turned over long abondoned soil at an urban public middle school in Berkeley, California, and planted the Edible Schoolyard. ...
Alice Waters quote ~
• “Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their favorite class.”
• food posters
• Sharing Food Lesson Ideas
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
b. 2-17-1879; Lawrence, KS
d. 11-9-1958; Vermont
Dorothy Canfield was an author, educator and humanitarian who was named one of the ten most influential women in America by Eleanor Roosevelt. Canfield-Fisher was one of the early promotors of Maria Montessori's educational method, as well as leading the first adult education program in the US, and a member of the “Book of the Month Club” selection committee. She was the author of A Montessori Mother (1912), and of Understood Betsy, describing a Montessori style education.
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