Giardini che educano

Living in complexity and being part of it, becoming self-aware, recognizing the other’s right to existence, embodying nature oneself as a natural, obvious everyday fact depends, Edgar Morin said, on our educational system. To do this, we need activate process that focuses direct experience with what surrounds us, particular nature, remembering education is kindling flame, not filling vessel.Starting from some contemporary principle, especially Morin’s ‘reliance’ Gilles Clément’s ‘planetary garden’ ‘terrestrial citizenship’, research goes back time attempts reinterpretation founding principles Maria Montessori’s thought. This sees garden privileged place for experimenting an system capable developing human beings greater awareness themselves their surroundings. In ‘our garden’, ideal cosmic education, “The great law regulates life cosmos collaboration between all beings” (Montessori, 2004).