# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-montessori
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:59:15.695Z

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description: "She turned medicine into a radical rethinking of childhood itself — not by treating children, but by watching how they actually learn when adults step back."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Maria Montessori enrolled in an all-boys technical school in Italy, aiming to become an engineer, then pivoted to medicine. She entered Sapienza University of Rome as one of the first women in Italian medical school and graduated with honors in 1896. From her work as a physician, she developed a philosophy of education — the Montessori method — grounded in scientific observation of how children absorb the world. She wrote extensively on scientific pedagogy, and the method spread. Today it runs in public and private schools across the globe.