Nanjing Ababy Education Center

Various scenes were built on the first floor and the mezzanine, to provide a place for children to live freely, where they can act, move and play games in different ways, and teachers and parents can also carry out all kinds of activities. As children are unable to accept things around, which differ greatly from them in size, we built many scenes suitable for children in size and placed imported international teaching toys carefully selected. In these scenes, they will have a strong sense of identity, feel very satisfied in the hands-on process, and truly become owners of the environment.

The corridor on the second floor is endowed with the functions of games, relaxation and scene display. Joints between walls and the roof form the shape of a house. While entering classrooms and looking at the slope roof, children will be given an illusion of walking from the outside to the inside of a house. We hope it can leave an imaginary space for children.

A natural and warm atmosphere is created in all classrooms, and we don’t want too colorful classrooms, which may distract the attention of children. Each classroom has a floor-to-ceiling window and a large area of natural lighting, to create an excellent environment for the growth of children. In classrooms, children can see scenes displayed on walls, which adds some fun to classrooms.

Experience may make us rather indifferent to some things, but children without much experience are in a stage of acquiring various perceptual impressions. If we just treat everything related to the minds of children from our own points of view, our misunderstandings of children will consequently keep increasing. Therefore, we must restrain those mental characteristics unique to adults hindering us from understanding children, so that we may set aside our superiority and biases as adults and give children more understanding and enough respect. Just as the founder of Ababy said, this is not a school, where there is no “child” or “teacher”, no one needs to “be taught”, and we learn together, grow together and gain happiness.