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What Do These Successful People

Have In Common?

Besides being billionaires, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, (Founders of Google.com) and Jeff Bezos (of amazon.com) and many others, credit Their Montessori Education For Much Of Their Success.

On the Barbara Walters ABC-TV Special "The 10 Most Fascinating People Of 2004" Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of the popular Internet search engine Google.com, credited their years as Montessori students as a major factor behind their success. Having been friends since childhood, when Barbara Walters asked if the fact that their parents were college professors was a factor behind their success, they said no, that it was their going to a Montessori school where they learned to be self-directed and self-starters. They said that Montessori education allowed them to learn to think for themselves and gave them freedom to pursue their own interests.

MONTESSORI SUPPORTERS:

It is quite an interesting collection of people throughout history who have gone to Montessori schools, sent their children to Montessori schools, or supported this method of education in one way or another. The list of montessorians is long, here is a short list of notable individuals:

Famous Montessorians

* Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, AMAZON.COM

* Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Cofounders of GOOGLE.COM

* Katherine Graham (deceased), owner/editor of the Washington Post

* Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (deceased), editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)

* Anne Frank, famous diarist from World War II

* Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature

* T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author

* Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)

* Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbooks

* Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)

* Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family

* Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors

Famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:

* Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)

* Patty Duke Austin, actress

* Cher Bono, singer-actress

* John Bradshaw, psychologist and author

* Yul Brynner (dec.), actor

* Marcy Carcy, TV producer

* William Jefferson & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY

* Michael Douglas, actor

* Shari Lewis (dec.), puppeteer

* Yo Yo Ma, cellist

* Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress

Others with a Montessori Connection:

Alexander Graham Bell (dec.), noted inventor, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. Helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States.

Bruno Bettelheim (dec.), noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher.

Erik Erikson (dec.), anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate.

Jean Piaget (dec.), noted Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school.

Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher

Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school

Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method

Helen Keller was a strong supporter of Maria Montessori

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