“It is a most unnatural and cruel thing to put people of the same age together. It is one of the most cruel things we do to children…” Page 331. Uh oh! What did Maria Montessori mean by this blanket statement? “In most schools there is first the separation of the sexes and then that …
Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori, born in Italy on the thirty-first of August eighteen seventy, was a very determined and inquisitive individual whose works have reverberated in healing ways within education for over one hundred and fifty years. Simply a mind ahead of its time. Where It All Began… Her father was a soldier, civil servant …
When we are exploring the world of adolescence and looking through the lens of Montessori, we understand that she coins this stage as the Third Plane of Development; between the ages of twelve and eighteen. Rewinding a little bit; the first plane of development is between the ages of zero to six and children at …
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