As a result of more than 27 years of working in education and exploring new ways of teaching and designing the educational environment, Anand Niketan has come up with the breathtaking initiative of creating a holistic education institution which has a new philosophy, unique approaches, fresh methodology, and new organizational forms.
We are excited to announce a new phase of our educational journey towards a NEW school - the school where the multidimensional process of creation is always on.
As a parent, if you truly believe in your child's potential, why limit it by sticking to the old ways of coping with traditional patterns of society that do not welcome individuality? How can you even measure your child's potential? We are all authors of our own life stories. Our lives are an ongoing – dynamic - process of self-creation. It's our goal and responsibility to create an environment that allows our children to discover and express their true selves, without being confined to predefined roles, but rather guided with respect and acceptance.
There is a lot of fear nowadays surrounding AI and robots and their potential to change our lives. However, we fail to realize that as a society, we have been like robots for centuries. We've been striving to meet default standards instead of embracing our authentic selves. We've been conditioned to follow instead of creating our own paths and to answer rather than question. Our education has largely been focused on providing correct, pre-existing answers rather than exploring the unknown. As a result, we tend to be uncomfortable with anything new because we haven't been taught how to interact and deal with it.
Many traditional schools, even those claiming to be "holistic" and "up-to-date", still follow the same methods and organizational structures that have been in place for centuries since the Industrial Revolution. Students are grouped by age, placed into classes, and taught subjects that are often unrelated to each other and the world beyond the classroom.
The syllabus of traditional education is often confusing, rigid, disorganized, and disconnected from real-life situations and the unique needs of each individual child. Traditional education caters to the demands of our current crisis-ridden society instead of prioritizing the well-being of our children. Its primary objective is to mold perfect workers and functionaries instead of nurturing and developing each child's unique personality. Essentially, traditional education treats children as mere copybooks that need to be filled with the "correct" answers.
Contemporary schools tend to rely on textbooks that provide a set of predetermined answers, reducing the role of teachers to mere facilitators of these texts. This approach reduces students to passive memorizers, evaluated by an impersonal and standardized system. Consequently, such schools cannot be considered holistic in nature.
The holistic education philosophy, we follow, creates new approaches to the designing of the interdisciplinary curriculum, the teaching methods, organizational forms of the educational process, and different relationships between students, parents, and teachers.
The holistic approach to education aims to bridge the gap between real life and school, eliminating the borders that separate them. It’s child-centered: children in a specially designed dynamic – experiential – education environment through exploring the world around come to the understanding of their authentic selves.
No one can unlock a child's potential; we can only create an environment where they can spread their wings.
In this sense, we provide unique possibilities for each child. We are unique because we welcome the uniqueness of our children. We create a real-life educational environment where the uniqueness of each child blooms.
Like a living organism, our school continually evolves, breathes vitality into the pursuit of knowledge, and pulses with the discoveries born of fearless exploration into the unknown. It thrives by unlocking the synergistic potential created by each unique member of its vibrant community, including students, parents, and teachers, and directing it toward a brighter future for humanity.
We are on the way to shaping the future! Be a part of this exciting journey!
