Many know Maria Montessori as the founder of the educational method that bears her name. A relatively unknown fact is that Dr. Montessori trained as Italy’s first woman physician. She opened the first ever Montessori School in San Lorenzo, Rome, in 1907. Today, Montessori is the single largest pedagogy in the world, with over 8,000 schools on six continents1.

This is the website of the Indian Montessori Foundation (IMF), an organisation ideologically aligned with the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), the organisation set up by Dr. Maria Montessori in 1929 to ensure that her work would be faithfully reproduced. The website aims to provide information related to various aspects of Montessori Education in India including training courses approved by AMI, membership to AMI and schools2 (based on a nationwide census).





1 Source: Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)

2 The list of schools on this website was put together as a result of a nationwide survey where each school filled in a census form and sent it to us. The listing constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by the IMF.
 

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The child's work is to fashion a human being in the fullness of his strength. By the time the adult exists, the child has vanished. So the whole life of the child is an advance towards perfection, towards a greater completeness... No one can do for the child, the work that he has to do, to build the man he is making. The child enjoys doing the work need to complete himself. His life is one in which work - [the doing of one's duty], begets joy and happiness.
Dr. Maria Montessori
 

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