In an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC’s “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2004,” the Google.com founders – Larry Page and Sergey Brin – both credited their years as Montessori students as a major factor behind their successful business. Despite the fact that both Page and Brin’s parents were college professors, the moguls said their learning at a Montessori school taught them to learn to self-educate and provided them with the freedom to pursue their own interests.
Other famous people educated in Montessori schools:
· Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Founders of Google.com
· Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
· Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Former First Lady of the United States of America
· Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Singer & Music Mogul
· Julia Child, Chef, Author and TV cooking host
· Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature (and my personal favorite!)
· Katherine Graham, Ex-owner of the Washington Post
· Anne Frank, Author