Popular Names
MARIA Name
| Name: | MARIA |
| Gender: | Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Bulgaria, Corsican, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indian, Italian, Muslim, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scandinavian, Spanish |
| Meaning: | Bitter |
Maria Montessori: "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of a man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"