...history her quote has been proved time and time again. Women who abide to the obstacles placed by society seldom make history or do anything incredible during their lifetime. Women who fight the obstacles accomplish amazing things . Maria Montessori is a prime example of a woman who pushed through the obstacles that society placed on her and made a huge impact on education world wide. Why did Maria Montessori education method impact people worldwide? Her method contributed to the development of education. First, we have to understand who Maria Montessori was and how she improved the educational situation at that time. Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Ancona, Italy. Her father worked as a civil servant throughout his life, and her mother who came from an academic family, was well educated for 19th-century European women. When Montessori was five years old, she and her family moved to Rome. Upon turning 12, Montessori decided she wanted to enroll in technical school for secondary education. Her father was not a fan of this decision because he felt that Women should be restricted to only learning certain subjects, but her mother didn’t mind the idea because she believed in letting her child explore her natural inclination to learn. Maria Montessori grew up in Italy during the time when strict rules dictating social customs and practices were prevalent. However, from a young age, Montessori was prepared to challenge the prevailing system. Against the wishes of her...
Words: 1334 - Pages: 6
...Maria Montessori Julianne Perry ECE101: Introduction to Early Childhood Education Monica Kelly June 13, 2011 Thesis: Maria Montessori's way of learning is very unique; her theory was for children learn in a natural and parent-supported environment. Outline I. Education of Montessori 1. First woman to receive a Medical Degree in Italy A. Studied psychiatry, education and anthropology. B. Worked, wrote and spoke for children with special needs 2. Many schools use the Montessori Method to teach today A. Principles of the Montessori Method B. Planes of Development II. Learning Style 1. Independence A. Children work individually rather than in-group activities B. Children have more freedom and work at their own pace 2. Strong Parent Involvement A. Parents participate in their child's activities home away from school B. Parent education programs III. Schools Today 1. Teachers syllabus A. Independent projects for children and programs for parent involvement B. Children work on anything they want, at their own pace Montessori's teaching is different than traditional lessons because her lessons are more about parent involvement and individuality rather than group activity. This paper will show how Montessori inspires me and how my classroom would compare to hers. Maria Montessori is a very smart woman, in my opinion. By reading a time-line about her and learning more and more about her, I understand her...
Words: 1478 - Pages: 6
...Dr. Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952) developed her philosophy of education based upon actual observations of children. Children pass through sensitive periods of development early in life. Dr. Montessori described the child's mind between the time of birth and six years of age as the "absorbent mind". The Montessori method of teaching aims for the fullest possible development of the whole child, ultimately preparing him for life's many rich experiences. It is during this stage that a child has a tremendous ability to learn and assimilate from the world around him, without conscious effort. A Montessori teacher recognizes and takes advantage of these highly perceptive stages through the introduction of materials and activities which are specially designed to stimulate the intellect. Encouraged to focus her attention on one particular quality, the child works at her own optimum level. A spontaneous love of "work" is revealed as the child is given the freedom (within boundaries) to make her own choices. As well as, Montessori teachers are trained facilitators in the classroom, always ready to assist and direct. Their purpose is to stimulate the child's enthusiasm for learning and to guide it, without interfering with the child's natural desire to teach himself or herself and become independent. Each child works through his individual cycle of activities, and learns to truly understand according to his own unique needs and capabilities. Everything in a Montessori classroom has a specific...
Words: 310 - Pages: 2
...Maria Montessori the Leading Lady Brandi Sims ECED 218 Stacie Hensley January 27, 2014 Maria Montessori the Leading Lady Through the age of time Maria Montessori has become a prominent figure in the education. Maria was the first female physician in Italy around 1896. She made observations on how children learn and she came to realize that they build up what they learn from what they find in their environment. Maria eventually gave up her university chair and her medical practice just to follow her passion in working with children and this is when she founded the first Casa dei Bambini or “Children’s House.” Maria Montessori has characteristics that make her a great leader and sets her apart from others. (Pendleton, 2004) Maria had a strong moral foundation that provided her with the strength and persistence to continue so that she could find her purpose. (Kandi, 2009) Maria had five basic principles that she believed in. Maria first principle was respect for the children. This was held true because as a teacher the way to show respect to a child was to help them do things and learn for themselves. Maria’s second principle was to have an absorbent mind. To have an absorbent mind is to learn from the environment. Maria’s third principle was about sensitive periods. Sensitive periods are when a special sensibility that a creature acquires in its infantile state. The fourth principle is prepared environment. A prepared environment is a place in which children can do things...
Words: 1004 - Pages: 5
...Maria Montessori Shedell L. Satcher January 8, 2012 Introduction to Early Childhood Education Jessica DeBiase While working and studying to become an early childhood professional the name of Maria Montessori has came up often. Maria Montessori was a legendary icon she was advocate for education and peace. “She believed that learning was a total life experience for all children and that children of every land and culture developed in fundamentally the same way” (O’Connor,). My personal thoughts on education have been influenced by Maria’s concepts, beliefs, and theories about education. Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy. At thirteen years old Maria began her college years at an all-boys technical school. It took a couple of years for Maria to decide on what she wanted to do with her life but by the time she graduated in 1890. Maria wanted to become a doctor and during this time women were not permitted into medical school. But she was confident and optimistic that change would occur and Maria became the first female in Italy to receive a medical degree. Maria worked in the areas of psychiatry, education, and anthropology. The Montessori Method is an innovative teaching approach for children that left a permanent mark on education curriculum throughout the world. Montessori defined four stages of development. She identified that within these stages of development it is intense at the beginning, consolidates and then tapers to the...
Words: 2106 - Pages: 9
...St. Maria Goretti She was born in Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy, on October 16, 1890 to Luigi Goretti and Assunta Carlini. She was the third out of the six children. Her sisters were named Teresa and Ersilia; her brothers were Angelo, Sandrino, and Mariano. At the age of 6, her family bacame so poor that they were forced to give up their farm. They moved to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio, and her father worked for other farmers. Later, her father died of malaria when she was 6. After her father’s death, her mother had to struggle to feed her children. She spent a difficult childhood assisting her mother in domestic duties. Soon, she and her family moved to Le Ferriere, where they lived in a building, they shared with another family which included Giovanni Serenelli and his son, Alessandro. The family was able to survive by working for Giovanni Serenelli and his teenager son Alessandro. Her brothers, mother, and sister worked in the fields while Maria cooked, sewed, watched after her baby sister, and kept the house clean. Since her family was too poor to pay for Masses in her father's memory, every night Maria would recite the Rosary for her father's soul. She was often at prayer. It was a hard life, but the family was very close. They shared a deep love for God and the faith. The words of her mother Assunta were fixed in her soul. "You must never commit sin, at any cost." In 1902, 20-year-old Alessandro Serenelli began ordering 11-year-old Maria to perform difficult chores, none...
Words: 673 - Pages: 3
...Joshua Marston's superior and shattering Maria Full of Grace manages two of the hardest tasks a narrative film can achieve. For one, it tells a story of personal misery, shot through with strong ideological overtones, without reducing its protagonist to a mere symbol or its screenplay to a simple polemic. Moreover, it is the rare film that starts out very strong and gets increasingly better. Add into the mix that this is the Brooklyn-based Marston's debut feature, directing a new actress in nearly every scene of an all-Spanish-language movie—none of the cultural backgrounds or political dilemmas represented in the movie reflect Marston's own biography or experience—and Maria Full of Grace seems all the more impressive. To top it all off, at the time of this writing, Maria trails only the mass-marketed martial arts opera Hero as the highest grossing foreign-language release of the year. When aesthetic dexterity, cultural sensitivity, and positive audience response unite this pointedly, staying at home just shouldn't be an option. This exquisite and profoundly humbling film is as good as they come. Marston has reported that Maria Full of Grace was inspired by his acquaintance with a neighbor who came to Brooklyn as a drug "mule," the horribly but unavoidably cruel colloquialism for women, usually young girls, who are recruited to smuggle drugs into the U.S. (and, no doubt, elsewhere) by transporting them inside their bodies. These women swallow pellets hard-packed with cocaine...
Words: 2717 - Pages: 11
...Eugenio María de Hostos(Mayagüez, 1839 - Santo Domingo, 1903) Político, pedagogo y escritor puertorriqueño. Tras haber cursado estudios primarios en la capital de su país natal, Eugenio María de Hostos viajó a España para completar su formación académica. Estudió en Bilbao y en Madrid, donde se licenció en Leyes y tomó contacto con los diversos grupos krausistas que en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX animaban la vida cultural madrileña. El krausismo determinó, a partir de entonces, los derroteros filosóficos, pedagógicos y políticos por los que habría de discurrir su actividad intelectual; y así, partidario de la independencia de las colonias antillanas, creyó posible una gran federación ultramarina que instaurase la república en aquellos lares. Convertido en adalid del independentismo antillano, Eugenio María de Hostos pronunció en el Ateneo de Madrid varias sonadas conferencias que quedaron plasmadas por Galdós en uno de sus Episodios nacionales (Prim).Vuelto a Hispanomérica, formó parte de la Junta Revolucionaria Cubana creada en Nueva York y dirigió su órgano periodístico La Revolución. Posteriormente, Eugenio María de Hostos recorrió América del Sur propagando sus ideas liberales, dirigió en Venezuela el Colegio Nacional de Asunción y fundó en Santo Domingo la llamada Escuela Normal, para volcarse de lleno en una incesante actividad pedagógica (1879-1888) que luego extendió por Chile entre los años de 1889 y 1899. Fruto, en parte, de esta abnegada labor, fueron los dos tratados...
Words: 379 - Pages: 2
...Author Erich Maria Remarque poses throughout the entirety of the novel, The Road Back, the question of what the effects of World War I are on German youth caught in the line of fire. Often, we are left wondering what is to come for these soldiers and how they will assimilate back into ordinary civilian life. Before entering the war they were but mere children; now they have matured and witnessed hardships far greater than many will ever experience. As Remarque’s second novel, The Road Back can be seen further establishing his social concerns within the roles of the surviving characters. Was the war a necessary evil or was it purely an effort to isolate and ruin Germany’s youth and civilization as a whole? World War I has taken its toll on...
Words: 655 - Pages: 3
...During the time when Erich Maria Remarque wrote the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front the Great Depression had just began, World War I had ended and World War II was yet to begin. The novel greatly reflects the time period in which it is set. “World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.” (history.com) The novel begins with Paul Bäumer, the narrator, on the front line, just as he has been for fourteen days. Bäumer and a group of young men from his school joined the German army after being pushed by school teacher. The author, just as Bäumer and many men of age, joined the army at the young age of eighteen. The historical decade is deeply imprinted in the novel in every way,...
Words: 326 - Pages: 2
...In All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque writes, “We are none of us more than twenty. But youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.” This means that even though these people in the war are barely adults they've been through an experience that makes them feel and act older. One experience was when Behm, one of their friends, was shot and they left him for dead, only to see him out in no man's land later that afternoon. Also “Because he couldn’t see and failed to keep cover, he was shot down before anyone could go and fetch him in” (12). All of his comrades had to watch him die, alone and in pain, and not be able to help him which could not have been easy at all. They not only had to watch him die, but also had to move on very...
Words: 309 - Pages: 2
...War contains major events that lead to the diminishing of one’s mind through the gas, guns, fighting, and death. Author Erich Maria Remarque uses All Quiet on the Western Front to represent and portray the horrific reality of the harrowing injuries during the war and the psychological impact, but also the brotherhood that emerges through the fighting. While on the rigorous terrain, the soldiers undergo major injuries that thwart them from fighting and sometimes surviving the attacks of enemies. Experiencing the execrable environment of the front, “[their] eyes [were] burnt, [their] hands [were] torn… [and] [their] elbows [were] raw” while trying to overcome the enemy (Remarque 133). Remarque depicts the appearance of the soldiers during the...
Words: 348 - Pages: 2
...“The sound of the gunfire from the front penetrates into our refuge. The glow of the fire lights up our faces, shadows dance on the wall. Sometimes a heavy crash leans to shivers.” (Remarque 94) Winston Churchill may have been thinking about how life was a constant living hell for the soldiers that fought in World War I when he said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” That is exactly what the soldiers did in Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and Lewis Milestones selfsame named movie, All Quiet on the Western Front. The brutalities of war not only destroyed these men physically, but mentally. These soldiers lost their sense of humanity and could not experience reality like they did before they went to war. When the author says, “We reach the zone where the front begins and become instant human animals.” (Remarque 56) he wants the readers to realize that the second the soldiers were on the front they lost all sense of humanity. They lived in conditions that were mucky, fetid, and infested with disease. The English Oxford Dictionary defines an animal as “A person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive.” The author chose the word animal because an animal does...
Words: 1262 - Pages: 6
...Erich Maria Remarque's life reflects Paul Bäumer's in All Quiet On the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque uses All Quiet On the Western Front to write about his life. Paul Baumer reflects Erich Maria Remarque throughout the novel. Erich Maria Remarque is influenced by his life when writing All Quiet On the Western Front. Paul Bäumer is influenced to fight for Germany in World War I when "Kantorek had been our school master... I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice "wont you join up, comrades"'(Remarque 11). Paul is influenced to go to war when his teacher begged and yelled at Paul and his classmates to go and fight, so they did and most of the class went right after they graduated. Erich...
Words: 434 - Pages: 2
... All Quiet on the Western Front, is a novel based on World War I. Author Erich Marie displays the message of how bad war really is compared to the glorification it is given in the time period of the early nineteen hundreds. He supports his idea by explaining the physical and metal impact war has on a young solider. Remarque demonstrates a major theme that stands out. The only way to show how bad war is, is to describe the horror. He wrote this book specifically to persuade people in the opposite direction. He tried to show everyone that war is not a good thing. In the early nineteen hundreds, war was seen as a good thing. Everyone assumed war was the answer because they had not been in the situation of it. Remarque figured he could use all the horrific things that he saw and experienced at war into his writing to inform people. He talked about the physical horror that occurred. Battle wounds, death, and much more. It also mentally affected these soldiers. It scarred them. War is not something you see every day, and this mentally killed their heads. These young men, went from being schoolboys to soldiers fighting in a war within days. They did not know what it was like to be put in that situation. They were not mentally or physically prepared. At this point, none of these men were scared, because they did not know what was coming for them. This was such a drastic change for them when the experienced war for the first time. These boys did not know what they were agreeing...
Words: 593 - Pages: 3
