On Ikyam, an alternative education school in Auroville

“When people appreciate each other and they start exchanging and sharing, real magic starts to happen.”

Alternative education means learning from Life, not from textbooks, exams and classrooms.

We need Textbooks which convey updated understanding of the issues, talk of the complexities around us and respect the intelligence of students.

शासन पर निर्भर न रहकर, जन सहयोग के आधार पर जीवनशालाओं को चलाने की बात

Museums can facilitate discussions on, say, how forests and their resources were put to use during earlier times.

Students have learnt about types of soil, nutrition, setting up a drip irrigation system and figured out that planting marigold repels insects

A little Indianized adaptation of The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis, a school superintendent, from the 1940s

Taking up personal and social initiatives in order to create awareness and reduce environmental impact...