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Dear :
A fascinating piece about Montessori has been posted on the Wall Street Journal blog. http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/#
The Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the world's creative elite, which are so overrepresented by Montessori alumni that the author lightheartedly suggests the existence of a Montessori Mafia: Google's founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean "P.Diddy" Combs.
 The Montessori Mafia showed up in an extensive, six-year study about the way creative business executives think. Professors Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University and 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.
"A number of the innovative entrepreneurs also went to Montessori schools, where they learned to follow their curiosity," Mr. Gregersen said. "To paraphrase the famous Apple ad campaign, innovators not only learned early on to think different, they act different (and even talk different)."
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