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A Montessori Education

inspired these great entrepreneurs, pediatrician, gold medalist...

		Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, Inc., online retailer of books, music, videos, toys, electronics, and other products. In addition to selling products over the World Wide Web, Amazon.com administers online auctions for items ranging from postcards to personal property.
		Sergey Brin Sergey Brin an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page.  Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google.  Sergey expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings. The defining moment for Sergey, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page. According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995." They soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine." The paper has since gone on to become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.
		Larry Page Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin.  Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. While a student in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin. Together they launched the Google search engine in 1998. Google is based on patented PageRank technology, which relies on the structure of links between web sites to determine the ranking of an individual site. Page is still "on leave" from the Ph.D. program.
		Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in the founding of Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. Wales' father worked as a grocery store manager while his mother, Doris, and his grandmother, Erma, ran a small private school, in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales received his education. Most of the time there were four children in his grade so the school grouped the first through fourth grade students together and the fifth through eighth grade students together. After eighth grade, Wales attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school in Huntsville, Alabama, which was an early supporter of computer labs and other technology for student use. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household… you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life." He received his Bachelor's degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master's in finance. After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the doctoral dissertation required to earn a Ph.D.
		T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. T. Berry Brazelton, M. D., world renowned pediatrician, is the founder of The Brazelton Foundation, created to ensure the healthy development of children and families.
		Sergei Bubka Sergei Bubka won the gold medal in pole vaulting at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. He is widely regarded as the best pole vaulter ever and one of the best athletes of modern times.

Montessori inspired this great chef, author, Nobel Prize winner…

		Julia Child Julia Child is credited with popularizing French cooking and cuisine in the United States through her books and television shows. Child was known for her cookbooks, television shows, exuberant personality and flamboyant style in preparing food.
		Anne Frank Anne Frank, a German Jewish victim of the Holocaust, kept a diary during years of hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during World War II. The diary was published after the war and appeared in English as “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” in 1952.
		Gabriel José García Márquez Márquez, also known as Gabito, is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. A growing consensus of literary scholars holds that García Márquez ranks alongside Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar as one of South America's greatest 20th-century authors.

Montessori inspired this great philosopher, president,
software engineer...

		Bertrand Russell Mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to demonstrate that mathematics and numbers can be understood as groups of concepts, or classes. This idea resulted in a new symbolic language, used by Russell in a field he termed philosophical logic, in which philosophical propositions were reformulated and examined according to his symbolic logic.
		Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, had a Montessori classroom installed in the basement of the Whitehouse during his term of office for staff to send their children to, and his daughter trained as a Montessori teacher.
		Will Wright Will Wright is an American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis. He is best known as the original designer of groundbreaking computer games such as SimCity, The Sims and Spore.

A Montessori Education inspired this great American violinist, record producer, Austrian painter...

		Joshua Bell Joshua Bell considered a child prodigy is one of the best musicians in the world. Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1967 and studied under the renowned violinist and teacher Josef Gingold. He came to national attention in 1981 as a winner of the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors talent competition, and as one of the youngest violinists ever to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Bell is a Grammy Award-winning violinist and he plays the infamous 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius.
		Sean “P. Diddy” Combs Sean Combs, also known as Puffy, Puff Daddy, and P. Diddy. After establishing his reputation as a successful record company executive and talent manager, Combs became a bestselling artist himself. Combs has also explored an acting career, appearing in films such as Made (2001) and Monster’s Ball (2001). In 2003 he received mixed reviews for his Broadway debut in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. Under the direction of Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment has branched out to include a clothing line (Sean John) and a variety of marketing and publishing businesses.
		Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian painter, and sculptor. By the end of the 20th century, he was arguably the best-known contemporary Austrian artist, though he was always controversial. He was born Friedrich Stowasser to a Jewish family in Vienna and attended the Montessori school in 1936. Before he was twenty, all of his relatives on his mother's side were killed in the Holocaust. He briefly attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1948 and began producing his own works in the late 1940s.

Montessori inspired these actors…

		George Clooney George Clooney is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–99), and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema. Clooney has balanced his cinematic performances in big-budget blockbusters with more modestly budgeted films on serious topics and more commercially risky projects, while expanding his prominence as a movie producer.
		Melissa Gilbert The naturally red-headed Gilbert is best known as a child actor who starred as Charles Ingalls' (played by Michael Landon) middle daughter, Laura Ingalls, on the television series Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983). Not long after that she played Gerda in the Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation of The Snow Queen. She also provided the voice work for the roles of Clara in the Sanrio film, Nutcracker Fantasy and later Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series. More recently, she served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild.
		Helen Hunt Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps best known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You.
		Sara Gilbert Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne and as Paula Schaeffer in 24.

Did you know?

		Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing". Piaget made his first observations of children in a Montessori school.
		Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell 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 Bruno Bettelheim noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher.
		Erik Erikson Erik Erikson anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate.
		Alice Waters Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher.
		Thomas Edison Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped found a Montessori school.
		Mister Rogers Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method.
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