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> had a good impression of "Montessori" from hearing that Larry/Sergey/Bezos went to one.

Oh man… survivorship bias thinking is dangerous.

At last for me, the last thing I wanted to my son would be for him to become Jeff Bezos.

Well said, see my post above. People think that becoming a rich psycho is somehow great. Montessori schools I visited were depressing AF.

Agree that they are rich psychos.

Disagree that this means the probabilistic signal is negative. They did become especially capable psychos.

There is no signal here whatsoever. Elon and Steve which I considers the best entrepreneurs in our life time did not go to so called Montessori schools. Also let us not clump all alternative schooling systems as Montessori.

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