The Montessori Mafia
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, December 15, 2011
It may seem like a laughable "only in New York" story that Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, is suing her 4-year-old daughter's untraditional private preschool for failing to prepare her for a private school admissions exam.
But her daughter's future and ours might be much brighter with a little less conditioning to perform well on tests and more encouragement to discover as they teach in Montessori schools. Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school's alumni that one might suspect 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.
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