Montessori & references
Nowadays
The Pedagogical Program, which Montessori - Le Valentin claims, has succeeded in the field of applied human sciences.
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The Success
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In the first half of the twentieth century, its dazzling success is due to the excellence of its results on disadvantaged children but also to the personality of Maria Montessori, a world-renowned psychologist who will be nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Parental choices
To date, the success has not been denied: more and more parents and big names around the world are choosing a Montessori Education for their children.
After Presidential couple Bill and Hillary Clinton, who schooled their daughter Chelsea in a Montessori structure, it was Prince William and Kate Middleton's turn to enroll Queen Elizabeth's great-grandchildren.
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Montessori personalities
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We know that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Will Wright, designer of the Sims and also that actors Michael Douglas and George Clooney, singers Bono and Dady Puff were Montessori Children.
They contributed
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Great intellectuals of the 20th century have invested in the development and dissemination of Montessori Pedagogy. This is the case of Jean Piaget, psychologist, father of genetic epistemology, who founded and chaired the Montessori Switzerland Association, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who financed with his wife the opening of Montessori Centers in the United States and Gandhi, historical figure of the last century, who supported the opening of Montessori Schools in India.
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They marked their time
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Among other established Montessorians: Anne Frank, Jackie Kennedy and Nobel Literature Prize Gabriel García Márquez.
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Finally
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As a conclusion, the testimony in English of Larry Page on his experience of Montessori Pedagogy, the determining role it played, in his eyes, in the success story of Google:
Montessori
Le Valentin
