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Biography of Maria Montessori, 1870-1952. Hollis & Carter Limited 1957; this edition, Mentor Books / The New American Library, Inc., New York, 1962. "Revolution in the Classroom. The inspired educational ideas of Maria Montessori have taken root all over the world—in Europe, America, Russia, India, China, Japan. Through the Montessori method even the physical aspects of elementary schoolrooms have changed from dull regimentation to colorful informality. Maria Montessori’s first observations came from an Italian classroom of retarded children; she found that even these unfortunates, when encouraged, had a spontaneous interest in learning, and a spontaneous self-discipline. Applying her discovery to normal children, allowing her students to progress in an atmosphere of freedom, Dr. Montessori found that they paced their own development through a series of sensitive periods where they became acutely aware of language, order, their own senses, society. Her method encouraged these periods to explode into bursts of creativity—reading, writing, passionate curiosity—thereby freeing the mind of even the apparent dullard and giving new scope to education and new breadth to the mind and spir

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Author

STANDING, Edwin M.

Publisher

Mentor Books / The New American Library, Inc.

Published

1957

Language

EN

Category

education

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (312 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14