PRIMARY LEARNING THROUGH LANGUAGES, GEOGRAPHY AND MATH

        PRIMARY LEARNING THROUGH LANGUAGES, GEOGRAPHY AND MATH

As I have already said in my earlier posts, when a child is born, he commences learning languages from his mother and other people who live in his surroundings interact with him. Languages may be verbal and non verbal. Here I would like to say that the child starts learning even before his birth when he is in the womb of her mother.

The child starts understanding various types of feelings and sentiments. He uses his senses to understand the things which happen in surroundings. One thing which is quite clear is that the child presumes that every thing starts and ends in the womb of his mother. It is the primary geographic area for him. Because his eyes normally remain close, he uses his presumptions regarding sounds he hears. However, this is a matter of intense research.

When child comes out in this word after birth then he slowly starts identifying the things. Suddenly his eyes open and he tries to assimilate and synthesize about the things in his mind. He identifies his mother, room, things kept in the room and toys. A feeling of affinity starts creating in his mind. This is the second step of understanding geography. Then child starts seeing things of this physical word. His senses starts developing and memory starts preserving the pictures and ideas of things.

Here, two things go on simultaneously. These are learning of languages and identifying things and places which may also call geography. The child interacts as per his convenience.

Here, one thing is interesting that the learning and interacting power of all kids are different. It has been found that parents of child, who interact with him actively and in a pleasant manner, he becomes more and more intelligent. However, his actions are unbound which are later on slowly restricted by the parents, elders, teachers and society. If restrictions are proportionately large, then it is feared that personality of child may suppress. On the other hand if no restrictions are put on him then he may become undisciplined.

Now, come back to the point. Here we are concerned about increasing intelligence of a child so that he may grasp maximum things and later on when he faces various types of competitions in life, he may be able to face them with courage and challenge. Therefore, in early school days, the children should be taught Geography simultaneous with Languages and Math. History and Economics should not be taught to him in his early school days.

Learning of geography begins from the room and home of a child. Placement of things in his room and home, location of houses and localities in his town and village is geography. This increases further by understanding geography of his District, state, country, word and universe. At this stages map reading should be told to the child.

When a child or a student commences clearly creating an idea about the particular area, then afterwards, he may easily understand the things and incidents occurring or occurred in that area. Nowadays many geographic TV channels are available and they depicts the things in an interesting manner. If a child see these programmes, his knowledge will definitely increase.

But apathy is that mostly, schools and teachers start teaching History like Paleolithic age, Neolithic age, Indus valley civilization, History of ancient period, middle period etc in early school hood days. Out of fear, compulsions of many other factors, the child becomes a parrot. He memorizes material of text books by cramming (Ratta). By this, the logical power of child can never be enhanced. On the other hand, if a child has physical ideas of areas and things, he may understand the happening relating to these areas easily and may synthesize thoughts about particular areas. By this creativity begins in the mind of a child. By cramming, no creativity evolves and no development of ideas take place in the mind. Three dimensional ideas start cropping in the mind of a child.

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