Nature!

“You learn science by keeping your eyes and ears open and looking around at this world. The real inspiration of science, at least to me, has been essentially the love of nature. Really, in this world, wherever we see, we see all kind of miracles happening in nature. To me, everything I see is something incredible something absolutely incredible. We take it all for granted. But I think the essence of the scientific spirit is to look behind and beyond and to realize what a wonderful world it is that we live in. And everything that we see presents to us not a subject for curiosity, but a challenge, a challenge to the spirit of man to try to understand something of this vast mystery that surrounds us.”

Prof. C.V. Raman.

Nature & science – When a kid asks thousands questions about everything around him it amaze us. But we hardly think he is trying to find truth – he is not less than a scientist or Rishi. Then under name of learning manners, descipline , safety etc gradually he gets detached to nature. We stop them getting dirty while playing in rain/mud,climbing trees,trying new ways to find something and then those children learn science/environment science- about rain,rainbow,trees,substances etc. in class using books! No they do not learn, they just come to know what other people has found in past,nothing new – any question,any doubt,any discovery added to something which is already searched in past. They remember facts upto exams and then everything disappear. Gradually they loose sight to see world around them and ways to enjoy nature. Do we realize to build scientific attitude we need to preserve our love for nature?

“I tried to get the children,before they opened a book to read their first world syllable by syllable, to read the pages of the most miraculous book of all,the book of nature.”

Vasily Sukhomlinsky

Nature & love for learning- Vasily has written nice book “To children I give my heart”. How he used nature to nurture love of learning in his student is spreaded in this book.

http://www.gyanpedia.in/Portals/0/Toys%20from%20Trash/Resources/books/Vasily.pdf

Just encourage your little one by giving answers to his questions about world around him and see how he continuously ask thousands of questions and spontenieously goes on the path of learning about science and life.

My children already fascinated by Aquarium shop near our home. We have built aquarium few months ago, many different kind of fishes,their life,food,habits etc. Roaming into different shops and meeting different people and talks about fishes has blast love for knowledge regarding fish in them. Moulie has given hundreds of kids first month ! They are trying breeding of more difficult fishes with their father. Feeding and observing for any disease/abnormality in fishes is sole responsibility they took themselves now. Their interest increased from aquarium fishes to other fishes and their life to other marine life to ocean’s on earth!. Trees/plants/flowers around and birds/butterflies/insects coming to garden are too their center of atrraction and always eager to know more. Can easily explain habitat and eco system and how everything in nature connected to and depend on each other. Apart from knowledge their kind feelings for different creatures and their love for nature amazes me.