7 Tech Innovators Who Became Wildly Successful After Going To Montessori School

Throughout history, tech innovators have had lots of common traits.

They're bright, outside-the-box thinkers, creative, and open-minded about the future.

But here's something you may not know about the tech founders listed below: they all went to Montessori school.

Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. $4, freedom within limits, and respect for a child's natural psychological, physical, and social development.

These elements are essential for proper Montessori training:

• Mixed age classrooms, with classrooms for children aged 2½ or 3 to 6 years old are by far the most common
• Student choice of activity from within a prescribed range of options
• Uninterrupted blocks of work time, ideally three hours
• A $4 or "discovery" model, where students learn concepts from working with materials, rather than by direct instruction
• Freedom of movement within the classroom

Here are the tech innovators who attended Montessori school:

Larry Page, CEO, Google - "I think it was part of that training of not following rules and orders, and being self motivated, questioning what's going on in the world and doing things a little bit differently," Page $4 in The Christian Science Monitor.

Sergey Brin, Co-founder, Google

Thomas Edison - "I like the Montessori method," $4 saying, according to historians at the Thomas Edison National Historic Park. "It teaches through play. It makes learning a pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being. The present system casts the brain into a mold. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning."

Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon - The Wall Street Journal reports that according to Jeff Bezos's mother, "$4 that his teachers would literally have to pick him up out of his chair to go to the next task."

Will Wright, Creator of "The Sims" videogame - $4 Maria Montessori's methods inspired Will to invent an entirely new video game genre-non-violent, open-ended games in which players use sophisticated computer simulation tools.

Henry Ford, Manufactured the first car

Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia - Wales has described his childhood private school as a $4 where he "spent lots of hours poring over the Britannicas and World Book Encyclopedias" according to his Wikipedia page (which we hope Wales created himself, all considering.)

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