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Two interesting articles
(Boston Globe)
“You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] were Montessori kids,” one staffer tells
[Steven] Levy. “Montessori really teaches you to do things on your own at your own pace and schedule,” Brin says in the book
[“IN THE PLEX: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives”] by Steven Levy. “It was a pretty fun, playful
environment - like Google.” . . .
Not hard to explain, says Dr. Kathy Roemer, who is the president of American Montessori Society and executive director of three Montessori schools in
Manhattan: “Brain research shows that all the characteristics those Internet entrepreneurs value - divergent and innovative thinking, intellectual self-reliance - develop before the age of
10.” That has always been the primary focus of Montessori education. “In the Montessori classroom, mistakes are opportunities for learning, chances to get children to think for
themselves.”
(Boston Globe) illustrating with a dramatic example how
failure is often one of the important ingredients of success.
“Steve Jobs’s career defined as much by missteps as triumphs”
[excerpt from the article] Edmondson, a professor at the Harvard Business School, said successful entrepreneurs learn to expect failure. “Anything
new and different and exciting that you’re going to try to do has a very high likelihood of failing,” Edmonson said. ”If you understand that, you’re much better off.”
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