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Montessori   /mˌɑntəsˈɔri/   Listen
Montessori

noun
1.
Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952).  Synonym: Maria Montesorri.






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"Montessori" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the educational museum, while Philadelphia emphasizes central high schools. The United States Government supplies a branch of its Children's Bureau, with daily conferences for parents. Among the many instructors who have been engaged to conduct classes in the palace is Dr. Maria Montessori, who is to give a course of lessons based on her famous system. The Philippine exhibit shows that Americans have developed in the Islands a system of practical education ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... conversation from Joe to music, concerts, the opera, "Salome," "Louise." She carefully showed she was up to date, not only in music but in other things, books she had discussed years ago in the club of the little history "prof," and others she had been reading since—Montessori, "Jean Christophe." Hiding her tense anxiety under a manner smooth as oil, she talked politely on and on, and she felt she was doing better now. So much better! No more stupid breaks or girlish gush, but a modern intelligent woman of parts. And a glow of hope rose in her ...
— His Second Wife • Ernest Poole



Words linked to "Montessori" :   educator, pedagog, pedagogue



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