Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Founders of Google.com credit Their Montessori Education for Much of Their Success
On the Barbara Walters ABC-TV Special “The 10 Most Fascinating People Of 2004″ Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of the popular Internet search engine Google.com, credited their years as Montessori students as a major factor behind their success. When Barbara Walters asked if the fact that their parents were college professors was a factor behind their success, they said no, that it was their going to a Montessori school where they learned to be self-directed and self-starters. They said that Montessori education allowed them to learn to think for themselves and gave them freedom to pursue their own interests. From: ageofmontessori.org
The series of cubes develop visual discrimination of three dimensions. Exploration with this material prepares the child for mathematical concepts in the decimal system, geometry and volumes.
Education should be an aid to life, therefore we follow Dr. Montessori’s idea that the goal of early childhood education should be to cultivate the child’s own natural desire to learn, in order for him or her to develop his/her physical, intellectual and emotional powers. Recognizing that children grow in predictable stages that have as their end state the creation of the adult, we must see in them the person they must become. Therefore, respect for a child’s personality and freedom, and trust in their inner potentiality, are a prerequisite for the foundation of our educational goal.