Maria Montessori: Maria Montessori: Is the Montessori method any good?

Google Doodle Celebrates Educator Maria Montessori. Google on Friday honored Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori with a homepage doodle celebrating her 142nd birth anniversary. The drawing (below, right)Maria Montessori stands in many ways as the mother of alternative education. The Italian physician and teacher invented a new kind of school, one with self-directed learning, classrooms with mixed age groups, and no grades. Now, on what would have beenMaria Montessori's 142nd

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