Today I was thinking about what does it mean to practically reconnect to the sense of the sacred?
A lot of people ask me about why I think 'unschooling' is the foundation for all powerful education models - now and for the future.
I just had a conversation with a friend who has recently joined an NCERT committee for science curriculum and textbooks. He asked me what I would include. I suggested:
- What if government schools took the lead in showing what education for the future might look like?
A LIVING EXAMPLE OF THE PARABLE OF THE EDUCATED FROG IN BOILING WATER
Several philosopher friends of mine point to the roots of the planetary crises humanity is facing as being the worldview of separation and scarcity.
A film about the power of water.
"To be considered relevant and innovative for our times, every visionary education project should have a pedagogy to engage with the larger money system, in other words, interrogate and re-imagine
"The modern university trains us to be ideological rather than dialogical. Taking an absolute position to win the debate. Judging people through black and white categories.
"One of the main causes behind the collapse and demise of modern civilization in the meta-crisis may ultimately be the modernist practice of degrees and diplomas.
International organizations like UNICEF brought out the framing of 'child-centered' education as an attempt to bring more focus to each child's needs and diverse learning styles more than three dec
I keep meeting many friends who are valiantly trying to fix or reform the education system with all kinds of super new curricula and shiny technologies.
A man entered a village and went to see the Sufi Master.
“Once upon a time there lived an old fakir in a small village near the desert in western India. He had a pet donkey and a dog for years.
An elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.
We come to understand in the Chandogya Upanishad that SHVETAKETU learned everything that could be learned, then there was nothing else to be taught, so the master said, “You have known all that can
In a story from Nigeria, an old man who knows his time is near decides to complete one last project to bless his relationship with his city-dwelling son.
Once upon a time, there was a small village which was inhabited by poor people. They didn’t like sharing their things with others as they had very little.
“I feel we need to look more closely into the mental health epidemic facing India.
1. Student Loans - skyrocketing cost of higher education will make students question whether it is worth it to take on so much Debt
“The West taught us that they are 'materialists' and we are 'spiritualists'. But this is a fragmented lie. We are spiritual materialists.
We have interacted with thousands of youth and have found the most common and important question asked by young people in their education today has nothing to do with the syllabus or with what is h
Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development
Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.
Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000
What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?
Factory-schooling is guilty of its own deadly sins. It is important for those working in the field of education to understand the serious damage that factory-schooling does to our children and to our wider species.
