The
Rural Centre
Krishnamurti Foundation India,Rajghat Fort Varanasi,
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"These schools fundamentally exist
to help both the students and the teacher to flower in goodness"
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J.Krishnamurti
The Rural Centre has set up a school named after Shri Achyuth
Patwardhan to try out, understand (in its entirety) and realize
(in spirit) Krishnamurti's vision of holistic education, which
he recalls "the education of the whole process of life".
It envisages creating an environment of self-learning, growing
out of a culture of freedom, open enquiry, interaction, initiative
and individual human dignity. << More
The Rural Centre is situated bordering Sarai Mohan and Kotwan
villages.
These villages are not developed despite being on the periphery
of the ancient holy city - Varanasi. The children from Sarai
Mohana, Kotwan, Kapildhara and Rajapur villages walk down
to the school. Rajapur village is situated about 3.5 km from
the Centre. Most of the children belong to fishermen and weavers
communities. These communities have been driven to appalling
poverty due to the dwindling stock of fish in holy river -Ganga
(Ganges) and adverse consequences of economic policies. The
children from these communities have meager resources to afford
a good education. APS is making concerted efforts to fill
this gap.
About 240 and odd students are studying right from the Kindergarten
to Tenth Standard. It is a co-education school. Tenth standard
was introduced from the academic year 2006-07. The students
take up the examinations through National Institute of Open
Schooling, New Delhi. In addition to the regular academic
subjects word processing and disaster management have been
introduced as new subjects to the curriculum of the school.
The Rotary Club of Varanasi South has gifted two computers,
solely for the use of students and teachers.
The school provides snacks to the students. This midday snack
is served as an encouragement to these disadvantaged children
to pursue education. The school runs mostly on donations from
philanthropists and to some degree on the resources raised
internally. The school needs quite a lot of infrastructural
facilities, education materials, equipments, etc. With a view
to provide a different perspective to learning and life, resources
persons are invited periodically to conduct workshops on education,
arts and crafts, skills development etc.
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