Ash and I revisited Mahatma Gandhi International School in Ahmedabad a couple of days ago. It is from there we took inspiration in the field of project based learning. I remember, when we first went, thingking what a simple idea it is yet one with such massive scope. Infinite, in fact. I just wish our facilitators could see it the same way!

Hopefully they will soon; the people of MGIS are really ace people who are open to what we are creating at Hunar Ghar. Next week we’re going to visit them again with Deepak and our facilitator trainer, Paras Metha, for a couple of days. We were chatting with one of the teachers (who happened to introduced us to the royal family of Sirohi, the district where we live. I can’t wait to find out what royal chai tastes like!) when Anjou, the headmistress came over and said we should bring down all 6/8  (depending on when we hire them)  of our facilitators to go through some training with theirs. That, if we can go about it in a really meaningful way, could be totally fantastic.

I hope also that MGIS will use Educate for Life and Hunar Ghar as a learning tool; our schools are very different and invovled very different people but we’re working for similar ideals and the different expression of these ideas and values is really interesting. The rural and urban are really different learning environments and it could be great for our kids to exchange and see whether these preparations for life we are trying to give them really holds true!