How did Montessori begin?
The Montessori Method was developed nearly one hundred years ago in Rome, Italy by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician-educator. Dr. Montessori worked with underprivileged children in Rome in the early 1900s. She discovered that young children become absorbed in a serious interaction when working with specialized manipulative materials. Through this interaction and personal experience in a prepared environment, the children developed an extraordinarily high level of intellectual and social ability at a very young age.
