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With Graduates Like These . . .Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder We Must Be Doing Something Right!!!Graduates and Supporters: President Woodrow Wilson had a Montessori classroom installed in the basement of the White House during his term of office for staff to send their children to and his daughter was trained as a Montessori teacher. Margaret Wilson was on the committee that brought Dr. Montessori to the USA in 1915. Katherine Graham, Owner/Editor of the Washington Post Larry Page and Sergey Brin - When asked to what they attributed their success, they responded 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 the freedom to pursue their own interests. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind SporeBy: Brian Crecente Spore, Will Wright's far-reaching game about life, the universe and everything, is a journey, not just from microscope to universe, but of discovery and imagination. It's also the clearest example of how, in creating his games, Wright taps so deeply into the principals of his grade-school education which was based on a pedagogy built on child development first formulated more than 100 years ago in Rome. Because of this, Wright's greatest achievement isn't delivering the universe as toy in Spore, the digital dollhouses of the Sims or even the planned towns of Sim City. It's his ability to touch a gamer's imagination and inspire their intellect. To create not just games, but places and spaces of exploration Click here for the complete article. |
