Swaraj (self-rule or rather, rule over oneself) is inspired by Gandhiji's
Hind Swaraj, a call for people to lead and create their own models
of development that are holistic, pluralistic, sustainable, liberating,
collaborative, socially just, and anticipatory. By highlighting and
connecting the following three vectors into a framework of Lifelong
Societal Learning, we seek to create generative environments that
empower communities in building their own visions of Swaraj-development:
recognizing the infinite potential of each human being; and enabling
people to continuously 'learn, unlearn, and relearn' by developing
their capacities for deep thinking, reflecting, feeling, understanding,
sharing, creating, and taking personal responsibility.
stimulating cultural confidence and cross-cultural sharing; and
nurturing the imagination, knowledge, symbols, languages, values
and tools necessary to challenge dehumanizing, exploitative institutions
and to create new meanings and practices of development.
redefining the meaning mainstream society gives to existing political,
economic, and technological institutions beyond notions of 'profit'
and 'efficiency'; and envisioning new conceptions of progress
which allow people to realize their inherent goodness, to live
in peace, and to discover what it means to be fully human.
"True Education is that by which
character is formed, strength of mind is increased, intellect
is expanded, by which one can stand on one's own feet."
- Swami Vevekandanda
"I would develop in the child his hands,
his brain, and his soul. The hands have almost atrophied. The
soul has altogether been ignored."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Education must be of such a quality
that it will train students in intellectual self-reliance and
make them independent thinkers."
- Vinobha Bhave
"Education is not just to pass examinations,
take a degree and a job, get married and settle down, but also
to be able to listen to the birds, to see the sky, to see the
extraordinary beauty of a tree, and the shape of the hills, and
to feel with them, to be really, directly in touch with them."
- Krishnamurti
All education is, on the one side a search
for the truth, on the other a pursuit of social betterment.
- Radhakrishnan
"We have to recognize that all education
is and must always be an experiment. We must be prepared to develop,
modify, and adapt it to meet the divergent needs of town and village,
of industrial and agricultural areas and of the different parts
of the country. . . We must also recognize that there are differences
in the taste and aptitude of children and there are some who are
practical-minded while others have a greater predilection for
abstract or artistic activities."
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
"For true education is to realize
at every stage how our learning and knowledge have an organic
connection with our surroundings."
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Education encompasses the entire vista
of mans life on earth, from conception to cremation, if not before
and beyond it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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