Maria Montessori urged us to give young people a “vision of the universe” to help them discover how all of its parts are interconnected and interdependent. Using this a building block of the educational design helps adolescents to understand their place in society and the world. For the third plane the world is the learning environment, and the student moves in that world and learns from real life situations.

Education for a new world (1946, 2007), page 61

The absorbent mind (1949, 2007) page 267, 268

The Child, Society and the World (1979, 2016) pages 103-105

The Education of the human potential (1948, 2007), pages 4-5

NAMTA Journal, vol. 38 no. 1, winter 2013 

Deepening Cosmic Education, Gerard Leonard: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1078015.pdf

Maria Montessori’s Cosmic Vision, Cosmic Plan and Cosmic Education by Camillo Grazzini: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1078117.pdf

Cosmic Education by Margaret E. Stephenson: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1078016.pdf

Angeline Stoll Lillard Montessori, The Science Behind the Genius (2017, pg 154)

Image of Cosmic curriculum help for (primary) education: https://msl-edu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MontessoriCosmicEducation.png

IB Programme comments: https://kirrawatt.com/uploads/2/4/7/2/24720749/holistic_education.pdf

Rose publication: https://www.rosejourn.com/index.php/rose/article/view/37/70

Holistic Education an Approach for the 21st century Sirous Mahmoudi et al: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1066819.pdf