It may seem like a laughable “only in New York” story that Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, is suing her 4-year-old daughter’s untraditional private preschool for failing to prepare her for a private school admissions exam.

But her daughter’s future and ours might be much brighter with a little less conditioning to perform well on tests and more encouragement to discover as they teach in Montessori schools. Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a Montessori Mafia: Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs. To read more…

Why send your child to a Montessori school? The presentation below presents a compelling reason:

Being a parent isn’t easy. We go into this without any training, and for those who live without support from extended family or peers, advice is often gleaned only from “experts” in the media. How then, are we fairing? This article by Elizabeth Kolbert reflects on the way in which many North American parents approach parenting and its results.

Google. Amazon. SimCity. What do they all have in common? Their founders went to Montessori schools! According to this Globe and Mail article, some companies even apply Montessori practices to their businesses.