How learning to love geography can help make the world a better place | Carlomria Grassi

Reading this very
interesting article, wrote by Mr. B. George, we will understand why learning to
love geography can help make the world a better place but before let me invest
few words about Maria Montessori ...

Dr. Maria Montessori
began her educational journey teaching children in a mental institution,
convinced that with appropriate techniques she could make a real difference. A
number of the children made such significant progress that when she entered
them in mainstream examinations they outperformed other children educated in
ordinary schools. Montessori then realised that something must be wrong with
the mainstream teaching for this to have happened and she set about researching
how children could be better taught.

In 1907
Montessori was appointed as the director of a nursery for 50 three- to six-year
olds in a slum area of Rome, set up by the housing authority to keep the
children off the streets. And so began the first "Casa dei Bambini".  Montessori used the same techniques she had
used at the mental institution, allowing the children to work independently and
to choose the activities that interested them. She was led by the children and
carefully observed how they learnt and what materials they chose to use. She
noticed that as the children worked with the materials they developed
considerable powers of concentration and self-discipline. She developed new
materials and discarded any that did not appeal to the children. She developed
the theories of the Montessori Method based on careful observation of what
children revealed about their developmental needs.

How learning to love geography can help make the world a better place - Quartz