Maria Montessori Research Paper
"I was once lost, but now I am found." This quote most accurately describes my feelings pursuing this specific Montessori track certification; especially while raising four young children at home, simultaneously. I was raised by a very Italian, Catholic family, The Orsini family, who descended from a Famous Pope, "Pope Orsini." My mother then died, when I was nine years old, and my understanding of my Italian heritage had been lost and forgotten; for the most part, after my father married her nurse two months after she died. But, from what I gather in her journals and a book she had published called, “The Orsini Family,“ she learned of Maria Montessori's effective learning techniques derived from Italy and was adamant that my sister and I, would attend a Montessori school. And although, I do not have many memories at all before the age of nine, I do recall specific Montessori tools and their lifelong affect on my life, which will be imprinted in mind indefinitely.
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I always had a deep appreciation for the foundation I developed at Montessori, and knew I would have never been so successful in my schooling; after dealing with the death of my mother and then a new stepmother forced upon me, had it not been for those critical years of development, which I accredit to
I always had a deep appreciation for the foundation I developed at Montessori, and knew I would have never been so successful in my schooling; after dealing with the death of my mother and then a new stepmother forced upon me, had it not been for those critical years of development, which I accredit to