Maria montessori education for peace
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Maria Montessori’s Vision of Peace Education
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Maria montessori education for peace
Montessori’s pursuit of peace started with the child, but it didn’t stop there. As the American Montessori Society (AMS) notes, “In addition to advocating for women and children’s rights, Maria Montessori sought out world peace.
She believed war and violence were unjustifiable. In fact, Montessori’s antifascist views caused her to be forced into exile from Italy during Mussolini’s premiership. During her exile, she developed her work. Education for Peace in which she expressed her ideal that children are peacemakers and education is the only true means to eliminate war.”
As Dr.
Montessori wrote in Education and Peace, “Preventing conflicts is the work of politics: establishing peace is the work of education.” As a result of her outspoken advocacy for peace, Dr. Montessori was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for three consecutive years: 1949, 1951, and 1952.
Peace education in the Montessori classrooms of today
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