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montessori

/ˌmɑntəˈsoɹi/

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What does montessori mean?

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the Montessori education method developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori.

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The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
The households they were brought up in were no more average households than a Montessori school is an average school.
Bernard ShawTreatise on Parents and ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #908
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Then I remembered the kindergarten, and the “material” devised by Signora Montessori, and guardedly replied: “To some extent.”
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
I am separating him from the other kindergarten children, and trying the Montessori method of a private rug and no nervous distraction.
Jean WebsterDear EnemyProject Gutenberg ebook #238
It is among such women that one observes the periodic rages for Bergsonism, the Montessori method, the twilight sleep and other such follies, so pathetically characteristic of American culture.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270