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Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, Italy, on August 31, 1870.

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Not much is known about Montessori's Early Childhood, however when she was 6 years old, she was given multiple awards in school for great behavior.

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Montessori entered into Regia Scuola Tecnica Michelangelo Buonarroti, a technical school where she studied Italian, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, accounting, history, geography, and sciences.

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Pursuing a higher education, 1886 - 1892

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Pursuing a higher education, 1886 - 1892

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Montessori graduated secondary school at 16, and pursued a higher education at Regio Istituto Tecnico Leonardo da Vinci. Then, after graduating with high honors, they went on to the University of Rome, and got a degree in natural sciences.

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Montessori started their medical career when she got accepted as a voluntary assistant to the University of Rome, where she observed children with mental illnesses in asylums, which greatly changed what she wanted to do in life.

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From 1896 - 1901, Montessori worked with "phrenasthenic" children, and while doing so became an icon for women and cognitively challenged children. Montessori had 1 son, named Mario, who she had to give up to a wet nurse for the first few years of his life. Later, in his teenage years, Mario proved to be quite a help to Montessori's experiments.

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In 1900 the National League opened the Scuola Magistrale Ortofrenica, or Orthophrenic School, which was a school that specialized in teaching mentally impaired children. Montessori was made co-director. During her two years at the school, Montessori developed methods which she would adapt to mainstream children later in her career.

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In 1902, Montessori joined the University of Rome once more, this time to get a degree in philosophy. (Philosophy included psychology back then.) She studied theoretical and moral philosophy, history of philosophy, and psychology as such, but she did not graduate. During this time she began to consider adapting her methods of educating mentally disabled children to mainstream education

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In 1906, Montessori was invited to oversee a group of children's education. The school in which they were taught was not conventional what so ever. The classroom was equipped with a teacher's table and blackboard, a stove, small chairs, armchairs, group tables for the children, and a locked cabinet for the materials that Montessori had developed at the Orthophrenic School. These children learned things such as how to button and unbutton shirts, and things of that manner

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The second "Montessori" school was opened in 1907, where they continued using unique tactics to teach children basic life skills. In 1909, people from different nations started noticing the brilliant tactics in which Montessori taught. In 1911, Montessori's style of teaching was adapted to Italy and Switzerland. By 1912, Montessori schools had opened in Paris and many other Western European cities, and were planned for Argentina, Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Switzerland, Syria, the US and New Zealand. in 1911 and 1912, Montessori's work became widely popularized in the U.S.A. In 1915, Montessori's father died, and she returned to Italy.

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From 1906 to 1946 all that Montessori did was further her impact upon poor families and children with mental illnesses. She gave 30 lectures in India on the first three years of life, and a government-recognized training course in Sri Lanka. In 1946, Montessori moved to Amsterdam, and spent the next 6 years travelling in Europe and India.

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Montessori died of a cerebral hemorrhage on May 6, 1952, at the age of 81 in Noordwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.