Who was Maria Montessori?

Imagine walking into your classroom and finding no desks! Instead, you see kids slicing apples with real knives and pouring juice from real glass pitchers. Sounds like a recipe for a giant mess, right?! Well, more than a hundred years ago, a determined Italian woman named Maria Montessori proved that giving kids real tools is actually the best way for them to learn! In this exciting episode of History’s Not Boring, Mira and Finn uncover the amazing true story of Maria Montessori. Discover how she fought against strict rules to become one of Italy's first female doctors—even having to study anatomy all alone in a freezing, spooky room at night! Learn how she took on a wild group of fifty unsupervised toddlers in Rome and transformed them into super-focused students by inventing kid-sized furniture and using cool tools like sandpaper letters to help them teach themselves how to read. From her very first "Children's House" to thousands of schools worldwide today, find out how her incredible ideas shaped the minds of famous people like Taylor Swift and the creators of Google! Tune in to see how one doctor completely changed schools forever!