(Chiaravalle, 1870 - Noordwjek, 1952).
Bachelor in medicine in the University of Roma in 1896, she studied the mentally handicapped children, called “psychopaths children”. And she understood that the problem with the children isn`t mentally problems, they had pedagogic problems. And she exhibits her ideas in the pedagogic congress in Turin.
In 1898 she gave a course about the education for mentally handicapped problems in the children. Later the course converted in a School by the capacitating for all the teacher of Roma.
She was convinces that the education of the children was support in a scientific knowing and psychology topics.
The Dei Beni Stabili institute of Roma entrusted she the creations of the first children`s house. Of here, her ideas about an elementary education expanded for Roma, Italia and the entire world.
Maria Montessori developed a particular pedagogic method, it called Montessori Method and it was use in Italian elementary school. The method was about the promoting of the initiative and the capacity of response to using an especial didactic material.
The principal idea was the children could learn by them initiative and them own time.
Finally, Maria Montessori wrote her ideas in a book called “metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'autoeducazione infantile nella Casa dei bambini “, in 1909.
I like she because was an important person in the education area. She was the first person who proposed a method developing specially for children.
