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learn at their own pace and included many different age groups in one classroom. Page was allowed to be creative and choose what he wanted to do, which helped him identify and develop his strengths rather than be stuck in classes that were not challenging and unfulfilling. Page learned early on that the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart and examine it. However, he wasn’t just interested in taking something apart and moving on to another activity. Putting it back together was also part of his learning experience. Taking apart various machines sparked two more interests in Page: invention and business. Page’s desire to be a computer scientist, just like his parents, never faded. He attended the University of Michigan after graduating from high school in 1991 and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. By the time he graduated from college, Page was a well-known innovator among his peers. However, that was not nearly enough for him. He wanted to further his education, so Page did so by earning a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. He then entered a PhD program shortly after completing his master’s degree. One of the requirements to earning a Phd—a doctorate degree—is writing a long research essay known as a dissertation. Like all PhD students, Page needed to pick a specific topic and spend years learning about it before writing his research paper. The subject he chose was the World Wide Web and how web pages are searched for and found. The Internet offers a wealth of information to people who use it, but only if the person can find a useful web page. Search

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