Maria Montessori was an educator, scientist, physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, psychologist, devout Catholic, feminist and humanist. she was born on August 31 of 1870 in the province of Ancona, Italy, in a bourgeois Catholic family. Her mother was Renilde Stoppani, while her father was Alessandro Montessori military profession and very strict.

She studied engineering at age 14, then biology and finally was accepted at the University of Rome, School of Medicine. She graduated in 1896 as the first female doctor in Italy. She was a contemporary of Freud and developed his own classification of mental illness.

The Montessori methodology began in Italy and is both a method and a philosophy of education. It was developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, from their experiences with children at risk. She based her ideas on respect for children and their impressive ability to learn. Regarded them as the hope of mankind, so giving them the opportunity to use the freedom from the early years of development, the child would be an adult with capacity to deal with the problems of life, including the most greatest of all, war and peace. The educational material designed is of great help in the preschool period of training. I like Maria Montesori because is a woman that through its methodology respects the development of learning of children, doing to learn more holistically and free.

Finally she died in May 6, 1952 (232 words)