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GLEAM IN THE EYEChildren are naturally curious and have an innate desire to learn. Children also have a tremendouspower to concentrate. If they are interested in a particular thing they put their heart and soul into it.They want to know it. They have a tremendous desire to understand how it works. They don’t haveto be taught.Maria Montessori demonstrated this over a hundred years ago. She was Italy’s first womandoctor. After getting her medical degree, Montessori started working with the children of slumdwellers. Montessori is famous the world over for her deep pedagogical insights. She haddesigned hundreds of teaching-aids for children. Several of them are still in active use - forinstance, the post-box. This is a hollow wooden cubical box. On each surface of the box there isa cut out of a particular geometrical shape - a circle, triangle, square etc. There are correspondingwooden blocks which have to be ‘posted-in’ the respective slots. A wooden ball, for instance,would go into the circular hole and a prism in a triangular slot.There was an elderly priest who was very interested in Montessori’s work. He would drop byon a Sunday to see the various experiments, which Montessori was doing with the children. Oneday, Montessori took the priest to one comer of the class, where a little girl, was playing with thepost-box. The little girl was deeply absorbed in her work. Montessori asked the other children toencircle the little girl and to sing a song aloud so as to disturb her concentration. But the little girlwas so absorbed in her work - in trying to figure out which block will go into which slot that shedid not even look up.After some time Montessori lifted the little girl and seated her on a table. As soon as the little girlgot her berth she once again got absorbed in trying to figure out the block which will go into aparticular slot. She was totally lost in her own world.The priest - a good old Samaritan, often used to bring some toffees and chocolates for thechildren. On that day he had got a big box of biscuits. He started distributing biscuits to thechildren. He also gave the little girl a biscuit. The little girl reluctantly took the biscuit. She intentlylooked at it. She saw that the biscuit was rectangular in shape. So, she posted the biscuit in therectangular slot of the post-box. Children do not learn through bribes. They learn because theywant to understand the world. Marksheets, certificates, medals and prizes are bad substitutes forthe real joy of knowing the world.
THE CAPTAIN’S HAT STORYLillian Oppenheimer has been telling this delightful story to children for over 50 years. Lillian was thefounder of the Origami Centre in New York.The Captain of the ship finds that all the passengers in his ship are getting seasick. So, everyday, heinvites them all to the deck to sing and dance and make merry. The people wear their most colourfulcostumes and have great fun. The Captain has a big steel trunk in which he has different kinds ofcaps. He joins in the fun and wears a new cap everyday.Take a full newspaper sheet, fold the Captain’s hats, and wait for the big surprise!1. Take one fullsheet of newspaper.2. Leave the sheet ofnewspaper folded inhalf along the middleline.3. Keep folded edge ontop. Now fold fromright to left.4. Unfold the paper.5. Fold down the topright - hand cornerto meet the middleline.6. Fold down the topleft - hand corner tomeet the middlefold line.7. Fold up one singlelayer of paper, from thebottom up as far as itwill go.8. Press the paperflat. Turn it overfrom side to side.9. Fold up this singlelayer of paper as faras it will go.10. Press the paperflat. From the insideopen out the paper alittle.11. This is the captain’sfirst cap - aSAILOR’S CAP.12. The captain usedthe same paper tomake more caps.13. So, hold the capand collapse it into...14. ..this shape.15. Fold up thetop bottom point.16. Press the paperflat so as to make...
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