دانلود کتاب Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

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 spirit of the child.

In this fascinating biography, written by her friend and disciple E. M. Standing, Dr. Montessori emerges by indirection—in quotations from her letters and diaries which reveal her humility and her delight with the success of her experiments—as an engagingly warm and self-forgetful person. Rounding out the portrait are eight pages of photographs of Montessori children at work in many countries of the world."