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The Child Is the Teacher : A Life of Maria Montessori by Cristina; Conti, Gregory De Stefano is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Child Is the Teacher : A Life of Maria Montessori about?
A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children—the accepted destiny for all women of her milieu in late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome—and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the condition of children in the slums of Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child’s mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides—scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific, traditionalists of giving child
Who reads The Child Is the Teacher : A Life of Maria Montessori?
It is typically read by teachers and faculty preparing courses and curriculum.
Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Cristina; Conti, Gregory De Stefano
- Publisher
- Other Press, LLC
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781635420845
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (73 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14