I just avoided one year of no-activity by writing this post! Thank god!
I enjoy writing and speaking my mind. However, writing has taken a backseat in the scheme of things I am up to - work, family, beads. And yeah, laziness!
The month of May has been one of inspiration, challenge and pleasant surprises. A lot of new information about alternative schooling in India. When I see / read people attempting to change things around them, I get a real high and kick out of it. Sometimes it feels like there are so many people working towards change and what more could be done. But at other times, you know that so much has to be changed that a few people is just not enough to carry it all on their shoulders. So there is a revived confidence I have towards pursuing my dream, my aspirations towards schooling, bringing some difference to how people learn, think and live.
Right now I am trying to work with a colleague to assimilate our learnings about education and implement a few in our work as well. I may try out some experiments I have about learning through experiences pretty soon. More than anything, I am going to document all the inspirations happening around me with respect to school education - with more rigor and discipline.
Looking back, I regret that I have not collated all the learning I have had from newspaper articles, chats, internet. If I had done that, consistently, by now, I should have created a repository of information which many of us could have used.
So, while I work towards creating my own school, I am not going to stall ideas I receive from outside world and assume I will remember them all. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. I also want to learn from what is going on already. I want to crystallise the present and build something better for the future.
To start with, an amazing school that I recently came to know about is the Vidyashram South Point School. Hope you get some inspiration from there. More to come, in bits, regularly. Watch this space and interact with me.
I enjoy writing and speaking my mind. However, writing has taken a backseat in the scheme of things I am up to - work, family, beads. And yeah, laziness!
The month of May has been one of inspiration, challenge and pleasant surprises. A lot of new information about alternative schooling in India. When I see / read people attempting to change things around them, I get a real high and kick out of it. Sometimes it feels like there are so many people working towards change and what more could be done. But at other times, you know that so much has to be changed that a few people is just not enough to carry it all on their shoulders. So there is a revived confidence I have towards pursuing my dream, my aspirations towards schooling, bringing some difference to how people learn, think and live.
Right now I am trying to work with a colleague to assimilate our learnings about education and implement a few in our work as well. I may try out some experiments I have about learning through experiences pretty soon. More than anything, I am going to document all the inspirations happening around me with respect to school education - with more rigor and discipline.
Looking back, I regret that I have not collated all the learning I have had from newspaper articles, chats, internet. If I had done that, consistently, by now, I should have created a repository of information which many of us could have used.
So, while I work towards creating my own school, I am not going to stall ideas I receive from outside world and assume I will remember them all. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. I also want to learn from what is going on already. I want to crystallise the present and build something better for the future.
To start with, an amazing school that I recently came to know about is the Vidyashram South Point School. Hope you get some inspiration from there. More to come, in bits, regularly. Watch this space and interact with me.
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