Tara House Montessori Nursery School

This link fosters a sense of obligation to the young people on the rest of the earth.
By focusing on the similarities first, we want to make it easier for people to relate to one another.
As with the Tumaini ethos we want to promote and foster empathy, tolerance, understanding and respect between the children that will start through this relationship and then extend further into all their relationships.
Children can view and appreciate each other's work by participating in joint projects where they learn about the same subject matter at the same time.
Montessori wrote extensively about the significance of giving kids a real-world connection and grounding.
She believed that it was crucial for kids to understand these connections and obligations from an early age.
Montessori wrote that the essential building blocks for a normalised, functioning, grounded and happy personality were to receive an awareness of their connection to the planet, to the people on it.
Montessori predicted and feared a lot of the social problems we encounter in modern society that have a huge impact on the wellbeing of our children.
The irony is, that in a modern society, with children being encouraged and able to access the internet as well as use various multi- media you would think that children have never been more connected and so easily connected to the world around them.
I would argue that it is entirely the opposite case; that western children have never been so disassociated from the planet than they are now.
Modern living has in fact made us more and more disconnected from the real world, from the planet, from our fellow man, from our fellow citizens of the world.