News 1896 International Congress for Women’s Rights Today is Equal Pay Day — marking that on the whole women’s pay continues to lag behind men’s pay. And here’s how that connects to Maria Montessori. In 1896, just after her graduation as a physician from the University of Rome, she was asked to form part of the...
News 1936 Catalunya Radio Address Imagine: it is 1936, around 8:00 p.m. Your family lives in Catalunya and you start tuning the radio after a day’s work— hoping for some entertainment, music and “instruction”. And, indeed, shortly after 8:00 the evening broadcast opens with a talk by Maria Mon...
News International Women's Day On March 8, International Women's Day, we can take inspiration from Maria Montessori, when she wrote in 1907: The time has come for action. We have talked enough. It is time to close the ranks, assess our situation, and act. These were some of the concludin...
News 100 Women of the Year On 5 March 2020 TIME Magazine announced Maria Montessori was named one of the 100 Women of the Year, in their list of the most influential women of the past century. The cover art was inspired by the February issue of 1930 featuring Maria Montessori. In thous...
News Statue of Maria Montessori The Italian city of Perugia has a special connection to Maria Montessori and her pedagogy. It was here that she delivered one of her last teacher training courses, cherishing many hopes for a study centre in that location. The Montessori presence has remained ...
News Helen Henny Gifts Painting of Maria Montessori Aged 13 Helen Henny, great-granddaughter of Maria Montessori, entrusted to AMI's care the oil painting of the young Maria at age 13. Helen's was an incredible gesture, and AMI is deeply honoured.
News The Silvana Montanaro Fund In 2018 Dr Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro, AMI Trainer and author, passed away. Dr Montanaro was a pioneer in spreading globally the insights of Maria Montessori and her close collaborator Gianna Gobbi, enlivening this knowledge with her own deep psychological s...
News BBC Radio 4 Programme Great Lives Association Montessori Internationale Executive Director, Lynne Lawrence, was invited to be part of the UK’s BBC Radio 4 programme: “Great Lives” about Maria Montessori. The Great Lives series invites guests to focus on someone who has inspired their lives. In ...
News Italian President's Speech 31 August 2020, the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, issued the following statement on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maria Montessori. “Maria Montessori nasceva centocinquanta anni fa, a Chiaravalle. La sua umanità, i suoi studi, la sua coraggiosa...
News Grazia Honegger Fresco Website Grazia Honegger Fresco was introduced to Montessori education from a very young age: at age 4 she enrolled in one of the Case dei Bambini that Rome boasted. In 1947, at the invitation of Adele Costa Gnocchi, she joined the first experimental class of the new M...
