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Weaving history and narrative, Cristina De Stefano takes us on the journey of feminist radical and progressive educator Maria Montessori, from her early days in the anatomy room to the hollowed-out buildings of San Lorenzo, where she envisioned a new pedagogy that placed autonomy at the center of a childs social and intellectual development. A fascinating portrait of the controversial woman behind The Childrens School, The Child Is the Teacher shows how the revolutionary idea about childrens rights depended on a new, peaceful philosophy of humanity.
Jaipreet Virdi, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Cristina De Stefano brings Maria Montessori to life in her important new biography, The Child Is the Teacher. With a fresh, objective perspective as a thoughtful Italian journalist, she gained access to many new original sources that offer a unique window into the life and thoughts of one of the twentieth centurys leading agents of social change and the founder of a global movement to transform education that also led to contemporary brain research. Montessoris life is a fascinating story in itself. This book will be a must-read work.
Tim Seldin, President of The Montessori Foundation and Chair of The International Montessori Council
In over fifty years of reading and writing about Maria Montessori, I have never found a book, except those written by Dr. Montessori herself, that I could read from cover to cover. The Child Is the Teacher is essential for anyone interested in education, in Montessori schools for children, and in Montessori teacher training for adults.
Susan Mayclin Stephenson, author of The Joyful Child: Montessori, Global Wisdom for Birth to Three
De Stefanos lively new biography of Montessori is a feasta sympathetic yet clear-eyed view of a complex, revolutionary genius whose mission was to shed new light on children, revealing conditions wherein they become the hope for all humanity. The book is extensively researched and filled with novel insights and information.
Angeline S. Lillard, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
With extensive access to Montessoris unpublished diaries and letters, journalist Cristina De Stefano has written a compellingly readable account of the personal life of the famous educator.
Dr. Mira Debs, author of Diverse Families, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice
When discussing a revered icon, approaching the myth without preconceptions or a sense of awe is a slippery endeavor. Cristina De Stefano succeeds in it, skillfully leading us in a narrative that perfectly incorporates her intense research.
Robinson, La Repubblica
Maria Montessoris life is a complex tapestry, which Cristina De Stefano has rendered with fluid precision and documentary faithfulness.
La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
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Originally published in Italian as Il bambino il maestro:
Vita di Maria Montessori in 2020 by Rizzoli, Milan.
Copyright 2020 Cristina De Stefano
English translation copyright 2022 Gregory Conti
Published by special arrangement with Alferj e Prestia di
Valentina Alferj e Carmen Prestia in conjunction with 2 Seas Literary Agency
Production editor: Yvonne E. Crdenas
Text designer: Jennifer Daddio
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: De Stefano, Cristina, 1967- author.
Title: The child is the teacher : a life of Maria Montessori / Cristina De Stefano; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti.
Other titles: Bambino il maestro. English
Description: New York : Other Press, 2022. | Originally published in Italian as Il bambino il maestro: Vita di Maria Montessori in 2020 by Rizzoli, MilanTitle page verso. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033929 (print) | LCCN 2021033930 (ebook) | ISBN 9781635420845 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781635420852 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952. | EducatorsItalyBiography. | Women educatorsItalyBiography. | Montessori method of education.
Classification: LCC LB775.M8 D4713 2022 (print) | LCC LB775.M8 (ebook) | DDC 371.39/2092dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033929
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033930
Ebook ISBN9781635420852
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Cosette placed the doll on a chair, then sat on the floor in front of it, motionless, in an attitude of contemplation. Play, Cosette, said the stranger. Oh, I am playing! the child replied.
V ICTOR H UGO , Les Misrables
Constructing the Self
(1870-1900)
The adult must respect the child, his ego,
and the rhythm with which he
is constructing himself.
It starts with a little girl. She is sitting in a big classroom with a ceiling thats way too high. It is 1876 and the public primary school in via San Nicola da Tolentino, in Rome, is like all the others in the Kingdom of Italy: a prison for children. You sit still at your desk, you listen to the teacher for hours, you repeat the lessons in chorus. If you behave badly, you are punished. The little girl is six years old and she has hated it all since the very first day. In silence, she begins her personal rebellion against the institution. Her attention goes out on strike, and, in just a few months, shes the last in her class. At school, I didnt study at all, shell say as an adult. I paid very little attention to the teachers, using the lesson time to organize games, plays. And again: I didnt understand the arithmetic exercises, and for the longest time I wrote down the answers using made-up figures, the first ones that came to mind.
Better at writing, with a passion for books, shes a born actress. When its her turn to read out loud in class some touching tale, she makes everybody cry. She has an outgoing nature and, despite her young age, a powerful charisma. When its time to play in the courtyard during recess, shes the boss, no doubt about it. If a classmate protests, she shuts her up with a cutting remark: You! Why, you are not even born yet!
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