MInD Kendras

20/03/2017

This should be happening countrywide..

Every day for two hours, women aged 60 to 98 in the remote village of Phangane, India, go to Aaji Bai's shala, or "grannies school."

16/03/2017

This is what I have been advocating forever...bringing the very young and old together!

21/12/2016

Here are four reasons why Self-Directed Education will replace forced schooling.

28/11/2016

Every child must learn to swim

ALL Victorian kids will have to be able to swim 50 metres by the end of primary school in a radical push to stop fatal drownings.

11/11/2016

Finland should be in charge of global education

This is a real revolution in education.

25/10/2016

The whole whole should be returning childhood to children..like Finland

The Harvard education professor Howard Gardner once advised Americans, "Learn from Finland, which has the most effective schools and which does just about the opposite of what we are doing in the United States."

17/10/2016

Where better to bathe in learning than in a forest aka sacred grove

There’s a chemical trees release that actually improves your immune system

10/10/2016

The case for swimming as a MInD Kendra fundamental reinforced

Love a good swim? You may be helping your mental well-being more than you thought!

10/10/2016

Drama brings to learning the three R's of rigour, realisation and responsibility.
The world needs more Dorothy Heathcotes to place drama at the centre of learning.

Larger than life teacher who placed drama at the heart of education

10/10/2016

Returning to a oneness with nature by "getting dirty" is a fundamental principle of MInd Kendra

By preventing babies and children from following their innate impulse to get dirty, we shield them from the microbial exposure that is essential for the development of a healthy immune system.

03/10/2016

Our children need to be saved from this technology dump in education

It's a gold rush, not a flood of educational concern