Fun Fact Friday

The Montessori method holds the most important years of education for children between the ages of 0-6 years because intelligence is formed with in the first 6 years. At College Center Montessori School, we have classrooms for children between the years 6 weeks and up to 5th grade!

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President Woodrow Wilson's daughter, a trained Montessori teacher, had a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House while her father was the president. Can you imagine going to school in the White House?

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We love Mister Rogers and he loves us too! Mister Rogers was a supporter of the Montessori method for many years.

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Famous people who have chosen Montessori schools for their own children:

Patty Duke, actress
John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
William Jefferson and Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
Yo Yo Ma, cellist

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Famous people who have attended Montessori schools as children:

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google.com
Julia Child, chef, author and star of many TV cooking shows
Katherine Graham, owner/editor of Washington Post
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, editor and former first lady
Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
Anne Frank, famous diarist from World War II
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Noble Prize winner for Literature

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Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori classroom.

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Montessori schools can be either public or private. College Center Montessori School is a private school.