1870 — A Pioneer
Maria Montessori was born in Italy. In 1896, at age 26, she became one of the country’s first female doctors and began observing children in a psychiatric clinic.
Maria Montessori
“Montessori education is based on the desire to learn and the conquest of independence.”
1907 — The Children’s House
She opened the first Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo, Rome. This place became an educational laboratory where she observed the concentration and natural drive of children.
1909 — A Shared Pedagogy
She published Scientific Pedagogy and held her first national training course, spreading a method based on observation and independence.
1929 — Association Montessori Internationale
Maria Montessori founded AMI in the Netherlands to preserve, transmit, and develop her approach throughout the world.
1939–1949 — A Global Legacy
Exiled in India during the war, she created schools and deepened her materials. In 1949, The Absorbent Mind was published.