Dr. Karin Hudson • Consider Yourself Credentialed

One of the things Montessori understood so well was the importance of learning through direct experience.

Children don’t simply absorb information by being told about the world. They explore it through movement, observation, repetition, and their senses.

And that relationship with our surroundings doesn’t disappear in adulthood.

Think about the places you remember most vividly.

Sometimes it’s not the grandest view or the most extraordinary destination.

It’s the sound of something familiar. The smell of the air. A conversation you didn’t expect to have. Something you discovered while wandering.

The environment becomes part of the memory.

Perhaps that’s one of the things I love most about travel.

We come home with more than photographs.

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