The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori de Stefano Cristina
A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori…
Specifikacia The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori de Stefano Cristina
A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator 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 as soft and pliable as their crinoline dresses. 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 in her milieu of late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome--and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she abandoned her son in order to continue pursuing her career.At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the work being done with
The Way of a Child