We will be researching the effects experiential education can have on different age groups, and reasons why this form of learning is not accessible to all people. Experiential learning is the process by which one learns information through hands on experience—it connects them with their surrounding environment, gives them a sense of self-identity, and installs passion and appreciation for the natural world. The blog will address many types of experimental learning. It will include reconnecting children to the earth through schooling or camps, high schools including place-based education, how management plans of nature can foster experiential learning, and how this learning can raise awareness and increase conservation efforts. We also want to explore tensions to these opportunities due to socioeconomic, race, or locational differences. We hope that our research will prove the power that experiential learning has to heighten ones awareness and increase affection of the world. We hope readers of this blog will see the importance of including these programs in learning for all ages, and have a better understanding of how to increase the availability of them.

“I HEAR AND I FORGET
I SEE AND I REMEMBER
I DO AND I UNDERSTAND”

-Confucius

“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”

-Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“Experiential education is elusive, often paradoxical, a multifaceted jewel with ethical, aesthetic, spiritual, physical social and psychological dimensions, even cosmic dimensions.  Psychological mountain climbing may be the right phrase for what we mean by experiential education.”

-John Huie

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
– Albert Einstein

“What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination–and now she who is exposed in this fashion goes on her own way, I owe a great and lasting debt.”

– Professor Julius Sumner Miller

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

– G. M. Trevelyan