Below you should find the link to my Google Earth "Bio Tour" of Maria Montessori. For some reason, the audio kept cutting out at 2 minutes. After a couple different attempts at I kinda gave up.
Here is the information that I was unable to include in my audio portion of the tour, information is drawn heavily from Rita Kramer's 1976 work Maria Montessori: A Biography:
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Here is the information that I was unable to include in my audio portion of the tour, information is drawn heavily from Rita Kramer's 1976 work Maria Montessori: A Biography:
In 1913, Montessori arrived America, she was at the height of her fame and one of the most famous women in the world. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle described her as "a women who revolutionized the educational system of the world-whose success has been so wonderful that the Montessori method has spread into nation after nation as far east as Korea, as far west as Honolulu and south to the Argentine Republic.
However, within 5 years Montessori would be all but forgotten in American, known only to a few professors of education.
She died in the Western Netherlands in 1951 at the age of 91.
Roughly a decade after her death, her methodologies would see a resurgence and today there are thousands of Montessori schools around the world.
Click Here 4 Maria Montessori: A Google Earth 'Bio' Tour
