What do Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge all have in common? They are the beneficiaries of the century-old student-focused Montessori education, which has produced some of the most innovative thinkers on the planet. Little Bets author Peter Sims wrote in his Wall Street Journal blog, “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.” “You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.” Yahoo CEO and former Google vice president Marissa Mayer told Wired magazine, “In a Montessori school, you go paint because you have something to express or you just want to do it that afternoon, not because the teacher said so. This is baked in how Larry and Sergey approach problems. They’re always asking, ‘Why should it be like that?’ It’s the way their brains were programmed …