What Famous People Went to Montessori School?

The Montessori Method is based on children being treated as adults who learn individually, at their own pace, and focused on interest-based topics. A core outgrowth: teaching students broad-based ways to think. This ‘how and why’ conceptual approach coupled with independent learning has been instrumental in building the foundations of many famous Montessori students.  

Montessori schools promote thinking rather than memorization. During the three-year preschool process, they assess each child’s growth by observing and evaluating his or her academic, social and emotional growth. 

The Montessori Method of teaching is not based on rote memorization. This conceptual way of looking at things can then be applied as they look at themselves and their world.  Montessori builds thinkers, leaders and entrepreneurs who rise to the top because they have been taught to learn by practice, by making mistakes and by learning with the help of other age-ranged students.

Famous Montessori Students

The Montessori focus on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) differs from most public schools. Funding deficits have forced public systems to walk away from the ‘A’--arts programs like art, music, drama and dance. But in a Montessori program, we can focus on all of it. As a result, the following Montessori alumni have become successful adults:

Technology, Engineering, and Business:

• Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google
• Peter Drucker, economic/business guru
• Katherine Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former owner/editor of the Washington Post.

The Arts:

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
• Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist
• George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor, director, producer and humanitarian
• Beyonce Knowles, singer, songwriter and 16-time Grammy Award winner
• Yo-Yo Ma, cellist and winner of 15 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Taylor Swift, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and Entertainer of the Year
• Dakota Fanning, actress and Screen Actors Award nominee
• John and Joan Cusack, brother and sister actors.

Why Montessori Works

Here’s what these famous adults have said about Montessori, their thinking and success: 

• Ability to learn from others
• Being confident, caring and hungry to learn 
• Unfolding students, not molding them 
• Being nurtured into a desire to be somebody special
• Learning a love of nature
• Bringing out the best in other people while building dignity and community
• Being taught how to learn while building initiative and curiosity
• Developing self-control, self-dependence, and willpower and,
• Receiving early training to express myself.

Summary

Lifetime Montessori School in Santaluz focuses on building your child’s skillsets at every turn. Who knows?! Perhaps your child will become a famous Montessori student! Regardless, one thing is for sure: a Montessori preschool start will give your child an early edge as we all work toward entering Workforce 2040.