Montessori education is a worldwide education system founded at the beginning of the 1900s based on a lifetime research of the very prominent Dr. Maria Montessori. Dr. Montessori was born in 1870 and in 1895 at the age of 25, became the first woman in Italy to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She went on to develop materials and techniques, which promote natural growth of learning in students – regardless whether children of learning challenged abilities or gifted ones.