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Long before modern education and schooling came, there used to be Gurukul. Kings, as well as common men, used to go to the jungle to learn. There was a balance in learning which came from nature plus a teacher.
Time passed and big books were written. Our "Environment" became a topic of study and got into the curriculum. But the problems which civilization brought along with it, they remained. We were not stepping into nature. What was happening was conceptual understanding at the level of the brain within the walls of classrooms, libraries, and educational institutions. New generations didn't really step into nature to know about it.
But this will take a different direction from now onwards. When the team of "The Girl" started teaching kids, we wanted to make a little progress by our little efforts.
Eventually, we came to know that kids have to rebuild their foundation. Despite having lived amidst trees and birds and a river, they didn't reflect any sort of grasp over the environment. More work was to be done. Moving beyond textbooks, together with them we build the bridges between what was textual matter and what really existed in nature.
We sat beside flowing water and listened to morning chirps. Spent hours in the woods to identify various sounds which we the jungles offer us. It was surprising for us that kids were learning faster by being out there in the open. Their questions came on their own and their answers were found out by them only. Nature is the mother of all education. From nature is where all ideas and inventions come up and leaders are born. Books can't replace what human beings have been doing for centuries.
Some Moments from a recent visit to the forest.
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