Philosophy

True education begins with knowing and understanding the child. At Shikshantar, the child and the adult are both learners. Together, they weave a world of sharing, discovering and constructing new hopes and new vistas.

Our curriculum is inspired by the works of. . .

• Sri Aurobindo and The Mother


• Jiddu Krishnamurti


• John Dewey


• A. S. Neil o Mahatma Gandhi


• Rabindranath Tagore


• Gijubhai Badekar


• Erik Erikson


• Jean Piaget


• Lev Vygotsky

. . . and our own experiences as teachers and school leaders


"The teacher should not be a book that is read aloud, the same for everyone, no matter what his (the student's) nature and character. The first duty of the teacher is to help the student to know himself and to discover what he is capable of doing. For that he must observe his games, the activities to which he is drawn naturally and spontaneously and also what he liked to learn, whether his intelligence is awake, the stories he enjoys, the activities which interest him, the human achievements which attract him… The old method of the seated class to which the teacher gives the same lesson for all, is certainly economical and easy, but also very ineffective and so time is wasted for everybody."

The Mother


"The right to education is not only the right to attend schools, it is the right to find in schools all that is necessary to the building of a questioning mind and a dynamic conscience."

Jean Piaget