The Montessori Mafia - Ideas Market - WSJ - 1 views
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Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were famous life-long tinkerers, who discovered new ways of doing things by constantly improvising, experimenting, failing, and retesting. Above all they were voraciously inquisitive learners.
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Barbara Walters, who interviewed Google founders Messrs. Page and Brin in 2004, asked if having parents who were college professors was a major factor behind their success, they instead credited their early Montessori education. “We both went to Montessori school,” Mr. Page said, “and I think it was part of that training of not following rules and orders, and
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they learned to follow their curiosity
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Will Wright, inventor of bestselling “The Sims” videogame series, heaps similar praise. “Montessori taught me the joy of discovery,” Mr. Wright said, “It’s all about learning on your terms, rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes right out of Montessori…”
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being self-motivated, questioning what’s going on in the world, doing things a little bit differently.”
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Hal Gregersen of globe-spanning business school INSEAD surveyed over 3,000 executives and interviewed 500 people who had either started innovative companies or invented new products.
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most highly creative achievers don’t begin with brilliant ideas, they discover them.
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We can change the way we’ve been trained to think. That begins in small, achievable ways, with increased experimentation and inquisitiveness.