Freedom & Discipline

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Topic: Elements of Elementary – Freedom & Discipline
Date: Wednesday, 12th August 2020
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Anchor: Amukta Mahapatra
Resource Person: Latha Rao, Director IMTC, Primary @ Koramangala spoke and led a discussion.

“The child who has done the admired piece of work is probably busy in a far corner on some new effort, and is only wanting to be left in peace. This is the period in which discipline becomes established: a form of active peace, of obedience and love, when work is perfected and multiplied, just as when the flowers in spring get their colours and prepare a distant harvest of sweet and nourishing fruit.”
– Dr Maria Montessori

“Learning is the freedom of perception, of seeing. And you cannot learn if you are not free. So, this very learning is its own discipline – you don’t have to discipline yourself and then learn. Therefore, discipline is freedom”
– J Krishnamurti

Latha Rao, Director IMTC, Primary is presently director of training of IMTC (Indian Montessori Training Courses), Koramangala and IMTC, Mangalore, under the auspices of the Indian Montessori Centre.

Her passion lies in creating learning environments for children that help them learn with joy.

She has done the primary course from Association Montessori Internationale and elementary course from Indian Montessori Centre.

She had the opportunity to work in the USA in a Montessori School under the teachers’ exchange programme and worked with children for the last 30 years, including the Valley School, one of the institutions of Krishnamurti Foundation of India.

She is a science graduate from the University of Madras and has done Masters in inclusive education from the University of Northampton, UK.

She is always looking for opportunities to work with children and help people set up Montessori and alternative environments. She enjoys interacting with parent and teacher communities to share and help them create stimulating environments and devise strategies that nurture learning, exploring and creativity.

She firmly believes that the method should be modified to fit the child and not fit the child to the method, especially in the early years.