Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Montessori Mafia

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/

An interesting article about fostering creativity.  Apparently there are a slew of the creative innovators, founders of both Google and Wikipedia, for instance, that were Montessori students before changing the world.  This article talks a good deal about the importance Montessori schools put on the students' interests.

Interested in observing at a Montessori Middle School?  Here are some in the Chicago Metro Area

http://www.chiaravalle.org/
http://www.nnms.org/
http://www.rpmschool.org/

If interested, here is a good summary of the Montessori Method.

Posted by: BB 

 

1 comment:

  1. Ben,
    Thank you for the brief overview of the Montessori Method. Actually, I just had someone ask me about the approach yesterday. I will send them this site.
    Mary Pat

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