I follow Mark Parkinson's blog....he is the director of the Shriram School in the National Capital Region of Delhi - a school that my daughter has just joined. So I am at a stage where i am like a sponge for anything that happens in the school. Admittedly, both me and my daghter are stiil having withdrawal symptoms about her previous school (Shikshantar)
Not to digress, Mr. Parkinson's blog (http://markparkinson.wordpress.com/) led me to this interesting article
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/top-school-hires-mind-gurus-to-teach-its-pupils-how-to-think-1670423.html
What this article talks about is something that the progressive schools in India have been talking for a while. There is no substitute to discovering and experience...and most skills and knowledge can be imparted through these two tools. Which is what, in my mind, progressive schools have set out to do. The only dilemma is whether the progressive schools are facilitating the child's progress?
Leaving children free, not imposing anything on them, letting them decide force me to think that all our value system as an adult is probably a matter of conjecture. Why else would we not expect a child to imbibe some values and instead be happier if they go along the same learnign curve again???
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Just sharing something ( that you led me to , in the first place !! )
ReplyDelete"A school is a place where one learns both the importance of knowledge and its irrelevance. It is a place where one learns to observe the world without a particular point of view or conclusion. One learns to look at the whole of man's endeavor, his search for beauty, his search for truth and a way of living that is not a contradiction between conclusion and action. It is a place where both teacher and the taught learn a way of life in which conflict ends."
"It is the concern of these schools to bring about a new generation of human beings who are free from self-centered action, to bring about a mind that has no conflict within itself and so end the struggle and conflict in the world about us."
- J. Krishnamurti