What sort of environments support wonder?

Just Wondering: Building Wonder Into the Environment
by Jim Greenman





To wonder is to question, to imagine and speculate on what is and what isn't. To be full of wonder is to approach life with an openness, an eagerness to know and experience. When something is WONDERFUL - it is something we take delight in - better than good and on the road to awesome.
A classroom filled with wonder is not necessarily full of spectacle or rare and dramatic events or fancy equipment.
Wonder is more often found in a collection of small moments when reality crystallizes and experience heightens.
There are the "this world is amazing and mysterious" moments that come... and the moments of discovery of "how things work and happen"...Perhaps best of all are those "ain't life grand" moments of pure pleasure or beauty.