Syamantak – School Without Walls
The issues that Hind Swaraj raised a hundred years ago about learning, education, the good life and about what is to be taught in schools have
simply refused to go away or die. They continue to stare us in the face. In our continuing efforts to deal with them today we need to ask ourselves why we ignored what one of the world’s most dedicated educators ha to say about learning in our schools and why we continue instead mindlessly with the prescriptions of an English gentleman written in the year 1835!
When their daughter turned three, Sachin and Meenal, both city folks from Bhopal, decided to quit city life so as to avoid its corrupting influences on their daughter and took to the country roads. Dhamapur, a small village nestled amongst the green mountains of Sindhudurg dist.in Konkan Maharastra seemed the ideal place to head to. Sachin’s grandfather generously offered them the use of his family home. And so was born, Syamantak – the school without walls! Read full Article