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
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Gijubhai Badheka
- 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
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