Learning in Georgia

Why this country teaches well

Georgia is cheap, safe, spectacular and almost unknown to most families, which is why it has become a base for worldschoolers. It also has a writing system used nowhere else on earth.

Three places and what a child actually gets from each

A Georgian sign

The alphabet is unique, rounded and has no capital letters. Learning to write your own name in it takes twenty minutes and gives a child a genuine sense of what a writing system is.

A qvevri wine cellar

Wine has been made here in buried clay vessels for around eight thousand years, and the method is UNESCO listed. Even for children, the buried vessel and the temperature reasoning behind it is good science.

The Caucasus mountains

Villages with defensive stone towers, glaciers, and an obvious altitude gradient in the plants. Walking up through changing vegetation is an ecology lesson you cannot fake at sea level.

A worked example

Here is what the Anywhere Lesson Prompt Maker produces for a 11 year old at a mountain village. Copy it, paste it into any AI, and you will get something specific rather than generic.

I am planning a learning session for a child and I want it built around a real place, not a worksheet.

Child's age: 11

Country: Georgia

Where we are going: a mountain village

What I want it to cover: Geography, Science, Language

Time we have: 1 hour

Please give me three things a child of this age could genuinely notice at this specific place that they could not notice at the same kind of place in another country. Then one question to ask before, one during and one after. Then one hands on task that produces something physical. Then two facts a child this age would find surprising. Then one word in the local language connected to this place with pronunciation. Then what to do with what the child made afterwards, in under ten minutes. Assume we are standing outside with no printer and no worksheet.

One word worth learning first

გმადლობთ (gmadlobt) · thank you. Also madloba, the shorter version, which children manage better.

Practical notes

Marshrutka minibuses go everywhere for very little. Mountain weather changes fast. A supra, the traditional feast, involves long toasts and children are included rather than excluded.

Do this anywhere

The prompt above works for any country and any place. Change the fields and it rewrites itself: The Anywhere Lesson Prompt Maker.