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The Adolescent—A Social Newborn (1938)

In this 37th lecture of the 23rd International Course Amsterdam 1938, Montessori seeks to educate the emergent personality, the personality that finds its...

The Reform of Secondary Education (1939)

This address was delivered to the Educational Committee of the Association of Head Mistresses on May 12, 1939 by Miss Phoebe Child on behalf of Dr Maria...

Development and Education of the Adolescent, Essay from Kodaikanal (1942)

Against the backdrop of a cosmic vision inspired by the beauty of the Kodaikanal lakes and mountains, and in the context of a period spent intensely studying...

A Historical Look at Montessori’s Erdkinder

As a member of the founding team of the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, OH, Mr Barker is heavily interested in the origins of Erdkinder and...

The Secret of Adolescence

Professor Tornar provides a framework in which we can clearly see how Montessori’s ideas on adolescence developed, and how they progress naturally from her...

Montessori’s Plan of Work and Study: An Explication

This article describes the synthesis of some of the work that has been the natural outcome of the collaboration of Montessorians working and communicating...

Junior High School Montessori Applications in Italy—More than Fifty Years of History

Ms Salassa presents an account of data in order to reconstruct some significant experiences carried out in Italy in the late 1950s up to today, giving a brief...

Montessori High School

In his speech delivered in 1970 in Paris at the Montessori Congress held in occasion of UNESCO’s centenary celebration of Dr Montessori’s birth, Herman J...

Secondary Montessori Education in the Netherlands The Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam 1930...

The Montessori Lyceum of Amsterdam (MLA) is the oldest Montessori secondary school in the world. Although Maria Montessori had obviously started thinking about...

Montessori Theory: Valorization

‘The first duty of the educator, whether he is working with the newborn infant or an older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and...