School is a word which is so familiar
today. The term refers to a place where teaching is transferred. There
are various types of schools. Some schools are formal and others are
informal. Still, some others are non-formal.
School in an institutionalized structure of education. Today the system
of education has become very complex because of many hierarchical
orders and disorders that govern the functioning of school. In ancient
time the system of education was very simple and the students directly
learned from the master in the warm and serene environment of the
ashram system.
Today the schools, the tree of knowledge
that marked the serene and scenic places of nature, have been uprooted
and placed in the urban man made jungle.
The school is based on tutor-student relation. Today self-learning
is very much less in contrast to text book learning. There is less
room for creativity. If at all there is the inducement for such works
are often really very rare. And this is what is troubling us. Where
has all the creativity gone? Why only memorise? Why only write? WE
have no answer to these questions. Perhaps the system has to provide
us with the answers.
The duty of a school is not to produce excellent and intelligent
students. Rather a school should continuously try to produce and provide
the society with good human beings. We believe that discipline is
the first and foremost requirement for a student. If a student is
disciplined, and if the discipline comes to him from the inside, other
virtues are bound to follow.
A School is also a temple. The very purpose of education is the total
development of students’ personality. To do that an atmosphere
of freedom is required and unnecessary formalities are to be avoided.
Every single student is made to feel that he or she is just a part
of a very big family. Indeed, we are a very big family.