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Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method in 1907. She intently
observed how children learned and developed materials along with a curriculum to
facilitate these learning methods. She believed that children are natural
learners. She also believed that if children are provided with the right
environment that the educational materials will spontaneously attract the
child’s interest and curiosity. Therefore learning could take place. Dr.
Montessori believed that children learn through their senses and when they
are able to touch, smell, taste, see or hear the lesson they learn
concepts faster and these concepts are more easily understood and
remembered.
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There
is a very interesting following of people who have either been Montessori
students themselves, sent their own children or who support the Montessori education. The
list includes, Alice
Waters, Julia Child, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Helen Keller, Alexander
Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Mahatma Gandhi, Sigmund Freud,
Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Ann Frank, Dalai Lama, Jacqueline Kennedy,
Prince William and Prince Harry of the English royal family, Cher Bono,
Bill and Hillary Clinton and Yo Yo Ma.
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