“Health and education are the basic aspects of a nation, because a nation is not a land. A nation is made of people. It is time that corporates focus on education and health. Look at it as an investment, not a charity. Must be known, “These words chosen by Sadhguru could not be more true. A large part of India’s rural population is devoid of these basic rights and investing, working on them can do wonders for the nation. Keeping this in mind, Isha Vidya is an initiative to transform the lives of the rural poor of India for the better. Established in 2006, the aim of the schools is to provide quality education to the underprivileged children from the rural parts of the country.
The initiative now has 10 English medium schools in rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh that use exemplary teachers and inventive and practical methods to help children learn practically and thus lead to all-round development. To highlight this progressive initiative, Isha Vidya Nagercoil Principal Betzy Stanley, Isha Education Project Director Vinod Hari, Atul Pant, Founder and Trustee of Timeless Lifeskills Foundation and Maa Vidyadevi, Academic Head, Isha Education, sat together.
Elaborating on the journey of Isha Vidya, Vinod Hari shared, “For the first 10 years of Isha Vidya, we ran like a start-up. Funding was difficult, we had difficulty finding, training and retaining teachers to build the infrastructure. Today we run 10 rural schools. We have 9,330 children and 49% of them are girls. Of these, 62 per cent children are on full scholarship, the rest pay very nominal fees.
Talking about the progressive way of education, Maa Vidyadevi, Academic Head, Isha Education spoke on the concept of ‘Happy Classroom Workshop’.
“We teach teachers how to teach without using corporal punishment, how to maintain discipline without using harsh language, or humiliating a child.”
“The workshop also teaches teachers how to make classrooms more interactive and child-centered so that both the child and the teacher enjoy the classroom and it doesn’t become a one-sided lecture.”
Most of the students come from humble backgrounds and parents often find it difficult to fund their children’s education but there are also children who belong to affluent families but they are there because their parents are Isha Vidya. Understand the high way of imparting education in schools. , the panelists said.
The four-day business leadership event ‘Isha Insight’ aims to help budding and existing entrepreneurs prepare for the next leg of their leadership journey, which began on Thursday and was attended by eminent personalities like Dr RS Sodhi, MD, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing. saw. Federation, which owns the Amul brand, Dr Pawan Goenka, former MD of Mahindra & Mahindra, among others who shared his rich knowledge and business acumen and understanding of positive thinking and ideals to guide the participants of the event. Entrepreneurs, CEOs and CXOs from 20 countries around the world participated.
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