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Learning lessons through practical work, a school in Bengaluru, India:

Snippets: - These students are getting Math lessons by measuring and dividing their plots of land with their feet; Geography lessons through the understanding that multicropping – growing ragi, toor dal and marigold together— will help them get a better yield; Science lessons by composting manure. -  A parent comments, “At my school, we just learnt by rote names of various crops, their soil types and amount of rainfall. But my child understands the process from sowing a seed to harvesting the crop and cooking it,”. -  Principal of the school says, that she wants the students to understand that not everything they eat comes from the market. “They need to understand sustainability, simplicity and, quite literally, what it is to be down to earth,” she says. Click to read from source : This is an initiative of Credence Learning Foundation to bring news and articles on education from multiple sources around . You can subscribe to our articles.

Amazingly how Montessori education model is so much applicable in organisations too:

Snippets : - Montessori kids are unique. They’re taught differently and they learn differently. - The vast majority employees in Corporate grew up confined by the rigid structures of our conventional education system. We sat in well-organized classrooms comprised of straight lines of desks, with the omniscient teacher positioned front and center. - Generally speaking, we had thick textbooks, were required to memorize innumerable factoids, took tests like it was our job and were taught to produce the exact same answers as everyone else. - A dominant leadership characteristic we’ve identified is that they’re often unconventional thinkers. A question they constantly ask themselves and others is, “why should something be like that?” Every problem is viewed as solvable — as an opportunity — rather than an insurmountable barrier. For complete article check out below link. Click to read from source : Source: https://onlinelearningtips.com/2015/12/corporate-kindergarten-how-a-montes