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Earlier, this place was like an intersection with energies pouring in from many sides but it all seemed transient. Now it feels like a focal point which can help the Auroville children to work out their inspirations in a concrete and worthwhile manner. They have a basis which can serve to give form to things. | Earlier, this place was like an intersection with energies pouring in from many sides but it all seemed transient. Now it feels like a focal point which can help the Auroville children to work out their inspirations in a concrete and worthwhile manner. They have a basis which can serve to give form to things. | ||
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Entity::Fertile School has been an unusual experiment, though a very interesting one. It has tried to pick on the interest that a child shows in something and to give it a practical shape working with one's hands. It attends to the needs of life in a given setting. The school has, however, tried to maintain a consistent theme in its work, which has been ostensibly academic in the mornings and practical in the afternoons. But this has been subject to a degree of variations, given the fact that the focus has been on the interest evinced by the children or simply because something needed to be done in the life of the community. This element of unpredictability springs from the naturalness and spontaneity of life itself. This is how the school has functioned.
Sometimes the school goes through a couple of weeks of regular classes and then the children find themselves, with the teacher, building a roof or training a horse. So far, they have done the following things: developed a zinc melting work; taken apart and rebuilt a 2 HP petrol engine for which a go-cart has been designed; built and tested 3 different model wind generators. They have now embarked on a full sized wind mill construction in order to have some electricity for use in the tape recorder. A silk screen workshop has been set up and a kids' newspaper will soon be published.
The financial assistance received from the central gov't has completely changed the look of the place. Thatched roofs have given place to more permanent ones, the furniture has received a coat of paint, the library has grown and new shelves have been added on. The video library contains 720 hours of mainly blank tapes that are being programmed. There is also a carpentry tool store and workbench.
Earlier, this place was like an intersection with energies pouring in from many sides but it all seemed transient. Now it feels like a focal point which can help the Auroville children to work out their inspirations in a concrete and worthwhile manner. They have a basis which can serve to give form to things.