Montessori History

Kilpatrick stated that Montessori's work, like Dewey's exhibited an understanding of the "conception of the nature of the thinking process, together with [his] doctrine of interest and of education as..."

By 1909, all of Italian Switzerland began using Montessori's methods in their orphan asylums and children's homes.

Upon her first visit to the United States in 1912, Montessori gave her first American lecture at

The Montessori Method was first published in 1909.

Kilpatrick focused his criticism of Montessori on two areas: the social life of the classroom and

In the schools that opened after Casa dei Bambini, Montessori found a significant and consistent difference in the initial response of children from wealthy homes and those of poor families.

In her famous quote, Montessori says that "each child was born with a unique potential to be revealed, rather than as a "_____" waiting to be written upon.

In 1959, Mario Montessori appointed Nancy Rambusch to serve as the U.S. representative of the

In her book The Absorbent Mind, Montessori, discussing the foundations of the personality of the child, says, "At ___ years old, the child is already a

"There is---so to speak---in every chid a _____, so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world."