Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

A hand book for a lifetime.

A must read for every montessorian and budding montessorians!

This is an amazing book meant for all MONTESSORI trained teachers. The book came in very good condition

Its a excellent book..

Paper quality is not good

I had ordered 3 books, All the 3 were in bad condition. The books came all oily and torn. Extremely disappointed.

an amazing insight into what a child is ...so little is he thought about in this world .....how initial years are so important which are so often neglected .Must read for all those who really wish to know little about child. Lots more....

Book is very informative and is written in simple language.

Best piece of toddler advice compared to many a books in the field because of the critical analytical approach. There is also scientific and social evidence implemented for grounds to support the qualitative reasoning.

A impressão é de péssima qualidade. Sem ilustrações e papel reciclado muito frágil e escuro. Impressão com falhas de tinta!!!!

I had previously read another book about the Montessori method, and also the English translation of "The Montessori Method". But only this authorized biography by standing gives a good picture of how important, and how influential she was. Montessori(1870-1952)was an extremely attractive, intelligent, and complicated person. Although she claimed to be only interested in "the child", and not at all in politics, her writings are shot full of socialist and pacifist ideas. She believed her education methods,through "the child's self directed manual activities" would abolish such tendencies as selfishness, acquisitiveness and the desire for status. Montessori also claimed in was a great mistake for people to assume that her insistence on the child's "freedom" dis not equate with a lack of discipline. Quite to the contrary, she insisted the teacher's (or "directress's")responsibility was to "destroy evil" in the classroom. And what is "evil"? Of course, "evil" is anything contrary to Montessori's personal belief. But Maria Montessori also had some wonderful educational ideas. She believed in "epochs of sensitivity" during which opportunities for the acquisition of certain skills could be most advantageously instilled. She believed the best time to teach literacy was from age 3 1/2 to 4 1/2, and that writing led automatically to reading. She turned out to be right about this, and also said that "absolute musical pitch" could also easily be acquired at the same ages. No one has ever prooved this to be true, so I think I'll do so. My name is Bob and my email address is [email protected]

A very interesting approach to learning, but kids also need to hear and share, joyful, emotional and fun reading from parents. If they get that , they will do fine in school.

I’m sending this book to one of my daughters. She’s the mother of a two year old son. This is a well written and informative book. It will help my daughter to learn more about Maria Montessori. I highly recommend it!