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In 1917, Montessori lectured in Amsterdam, and the Netherlands Montessori Society was founded. [58] She returned in 1920 to give a series of lectures at the University of Amsterdam . [ 59 ] Montessori programs flourished in the Netherlands, and by the mid-1930s there were more than 200 Montessori schools in the country. [ 60 ]
The 1914 critical booklet The Montessori System Examined by influential education teacher William Heard Kilpatrick limited the spread of Montessori's ideas, and they languished after 1914. Montessori education returned to the United States in 1960 and has since spread to thousands of schools there.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
The Association Montessori Internationale is the sole Montessori organisation founded by Montessori herself. It was founded in August 1929 by Maria and her son Mario in Helsingør, Denmark during a period in which they were enduring increasing hostility with the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy and Spain.
A trainee of Maria Montessori herself Stephenson first operated as Mario Montesori's personal representative in the United States. As the movement grew, Montessori granted her request to set up a branch office of AMI in the United States. AMI/USA was founded in 1972 and directed for its first ten years by Karin Salzmann.
St Bartholomew the Great Priory Church's coat of arms. Phyllis Wallbank, MBE (née Gardner; 1 September 1918 – 9 April 2020) was a British educationalist who, in 1948, founded the first all-age Montessori school in Great Britain and the Gatehouse Learning Centre, which took its name from the gatehouse of the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great in London.
The Montessori community does not have any central authority. AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) is the body that Maria Montessori founded in 1929, and of which she remained founder president until her death in 1952. Her son Mario Montessori was general director of AMI until his death in 1982.
Montessori is a method of education. Montessori may also refer to: Maria Montessori (1870–1952), Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and founder of the education method