Education
"Free Progress" is the name that has been given to the ideal approach to education as described by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Free Progress, in contrast to the regimented schooling system[1] ubiquitous today, is that which unfolds, emergent, through a person's engagement with the world in real time. It is active learning led by curiosity and by the preferences, experiments and lessons of the psychic being.
Given our current tools of expression, a real Free Progress class can only begin when a child is able to read and write fairly well. Before that level, a teacher has to use his own discretion; but the right attitude towards the child must be adopted from the very beginning.[2]
Education in Auroville is not limited to children, however. The Auroville Charter states that "Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages"[3]. This is more of an ideal mindset than a current reality, and is often interpreted in an exclusively mental way, but the statement has guided some efforts positively.
Sri Aurobindo on Education
Freedom to stumble
See Also
The Mother on Education
To love to learn
The life of every day
See Also
Explorating Integral Education in Auroville
Schools in Auroville
See Schools & Educational Centres
Where can I learn...
Dance
- New Creation Dance Studio
Languages
Communications media
Farming, gardening, Permaculture
References
- ↑ Gatto, John Taylor. "Against School", 2003
- ↑ P.B. Saint Hilaire (Pavitra), Director of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, "Two Cardinal Points of Education", Collective Memorandum presented in 1965
- ↑ The Auroville Charter
- ↑ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, pp. 226-230
- ↑ The Mother, Mental Education, Bulletin, November 1951
- ↑ The Mother, Mental Education, Bulletin, November 1951