Word: dottoressa
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...mathematical prodigy and the first woman to get an M.D. at the University of Rome. Physician Montessori became an educator by salvaging feeble-minded children. By giving them things to touch and twist with their hands, she got their brains to function responsively. Soon the Dottoressa had supposedly moronic pupils outstripping normal children on public school examinations...
...capable of laying down the law. In the shade of a giant banyan tree in the oceanside colony of Adyar, India, she had just laid it down to members of the Indian Theosophical Society. When someone asked her if she had become a theosophist, the self-confident old (77) Dottoressa snapped: "I am a Montessorian...
...Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...
...child education on the tough sons & daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed to spread her doctrines to parents-especially the parents of children of pre-school age. Parents who read it will find that she knocks some accepted notions of child-raising into a very queerly-shaped...
...child's soul, says Dottoressa Montessori, develops through a series of "sensitive periods"-times when it has a preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1½ years old, says she, can walk more than a mile if they are allowed to select their own pace. Other dicta...