![]() ![]() Typically, she drew from her ex- perience the vigorous conclusion - that if these children could be brought to the academic levels reached by normal children, then there had to be something horribly wrong with the education of normal children. Her great triumph, in reality and in the news- papers, came when she presented children from mental institutions at the public examinations for pri- mary certificates, which was as far as the average Italian ever went in formal education - and her chil- dren passed the exam. Work- ing thirteen hours a day with the children, she developed materials and methods which allowed them to perform reasonably well on school problems previously considered far beyond their capacity. At the age of 28, Montessori be- came directress of a tax-supported school for defective children. She did post- graduate work in psychiatry. As a child, she showed great ability in mathema- tics and originally intended to be- come an engineer. Maria Montessori was born in 1870, and she was the first woman ever granted a medical degree by an Italian university. ![]()
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