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"Each time children go out into the world with their class and are free to experience it from their own perspective, they are offered an opportunity to form their own opinions about what they see and hear and feel, not simply to accept the second - or third - or fourth-hand opinions of someone else. Encountering the complexity of that world and meeting the people who make it function, when carefully planned, can forge new connections that enlarge that child's understanding. It is not solely the child's concept of the world that is enlarged, but also the child's participation in that world. Engaging the world out there - whether it be walking through a forest, talking about the people living in Grand Central Station, watching construction workers skillfully operating cranes that seem to go up into the sky, talking to an Elder, observing sanitation workers showing what happens to massive amounts of garbage - provokes questions, real questions; the need to find out; the need to share their impressions with others; and in some cases the need to act." Out of the Classroom and into the World, Salvatore Vascellaro