News On This Day, 31 August 1940 On 31 August 1940 Maria Montessori celebrated what would be the first of six birthdays spent in India. The 1940 day was an exceptionally celebratory occasion, as she was able to spend it with her son Mario, released from a Prisoners of War Camp, just for this o...
Digital Object Maria Montessori, Amsterdam, 27 May 1939 Maria Montessori being greeted with flowers in Amsterdam, 27 May 1939.
News In Memory of Carolina Montessori AMI is very sad to announce that Carolina Montessori passed away, unexpectedly, today, in the early hours of Sunday, 7 April, 2024. Carolina was known to many of you as the most knowledgeable person in respect of the details of her great-grandmother’s life and ...
News A Moment to Remember Maria Montessori Today we take a moment to remember Maria Montessori. On May 6, 1952, "Maria Montessori went on from this life," as her son Mario wrote. Touched by the unanimous feeling of responsibility expressed by the Montessori community, with a deep dedication to further ...
Digital Object Maria Montessori's Grave, 1952 Young children laying flowers at Maria Montessori's grave in 1952.
News Inscription on Maria Montessori's Grave On 6 May 1952, Maria Montessori died unexpectedly and peacefully in Noordwijk, a small town on the Dutch coast. A citizen of the world, she had asked to be buried wherever she died — which is why you will find her grave in Noordwijk. Many Montessorians when “d...
News Montessori Tulips in Bloom Last autumn, in preparation of the celebrations of Maria Montessori’s 150th birthday some of her great-grandchildren planted the special Montessori tulip named on her grave in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Now on the 6th May, the day Maria Montessori died, they ...
News Montessori Family Planting Tulips Five of Maria Montessori's great grandchildren and two of their children spent a Sunday afternoon looking after Maria Montessori's grave in Noordwijk, planting the tulips that will bloom in 2020, to mark her 150th birthday. Noordwijk is a small town close to th...
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 20/3 07 Peace Through Education This reprint of a 1937 conference paper discusses the role of education in bringing about world peace, focusing on the need for a student-centered, nurturing curriculum to replace the authoritarian, teacher-directed curriculum based on punishment and rewards…
Page Books and Writings AMI's library in Amsterdam is the most comprehensive Montessori library in the world; it not only includes all of Montessori's own works, and translations in multiple languages, but also important collections of seminal historical Montessori magazines.
