THE MONTESSORI METHOD ~ SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY AS APPLIED TO CHILD EDUCATION IN "THE CHILDREN'S HOUSES" WITH ADDITIONS AND REVISIONS BY THE AUTHOR. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ANNE E. GEORGE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN MAYER. WITH THIRTY~TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

green cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. near fine cond. binding square & tight. rear cover has couple of scratches. edges clean. erasure spot inside front & rear covers, otherwise contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. facsimile reprint edition. b&w photo frontis. xli+377p.+ blank "notes" pages. 32 b&w illustrations. philosophy. pedagogy. psychology. memoirs. autobiography. ~ Maria Montessori was born in 1870, and she was the first woman ever granted a medical degree by an Italian university. As a child, she showed great ability in mathematics and originally intended to become an engineer. She did post~graduate work in psychiatry. At the age of 28, Montessori became directress of a tax~supported school for defective children. Working 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. Her great triumph, in reality and in the newspapers, came when she presented children from mental institutions at the public examinations for primary certificates, which was as far as the average Italian ever went in formal education ~ and her children passed the exam.…