Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (born 1870)

Maria Montessori

Italian pedagogue and physician (1870–1952)

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon…