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SADHU
VASWANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOOL FOR BOYS
Yet,
Another Contribution of SVM to Humanity
There
is a proposal to start a Residential cum day boarding school
for boys in the near future. It will be an International School
on the outskirts of Poona . To perpetuate the memory of the
founder of the Mira Movement in Education – Sadhu T.L Vaswani,
it will be called ‘Sadhu Vaswani International School (SVIS).
This will be a humble offering by our guiding light Dada J.P.
Vaswani to continue to strive to build men and women of character
who will understand the true meaning of education, which is
the need of the hour.
SVIS
will be a center of ‘learning and growing' for boys who will
be taught to ‘Purify themselves to be builders of a new Temple
of service.' A ‘Sense of honor' will be developed in our students
who will be taught to stand up with courage for truth.' To
fulfill the dream of our founder, at SVIS we will have teachers
who will use “Gentle forces of sympathy and understanding
to educate the pupils.”
What
type of education will be imparted to the boys in SVIS can
be aptly summed up by quoting the following extract from Sadhu
Vaswani's article “The Call for New Education”:
“Education
teaches how to build homes and the nation in character and
sacrifice. This
education
teaches that a school is not merely a place preparation for
examinations, but a center of the Light that giveth understanding,
a center of the Love that illumineth the heart, a center of
the Life that would satisfy the great need of our bruised
broken world – the need for Peace.”
Mira
Movement in Education has emphasized reverence of humanity
and cultivating the soul. Mira educational institutions have
mainly concentrated more on the education of the women in
the last seventy years or so, as that was the need of the
hour. Now with the world passing through a great electronic
revolution, we seem to be drifting away from the purpose of
finer aspects of life – of finding joys of living within and
therefore are living a life of stress and strain resulting
in loss of peace. Therefore, the call of new education as
suggested by Sadhu T.L. Vaswani has become more relevant and
the need of the hour is to impart right kind of education
to young men and women alike. Dada J.P. Vaswani feels that
there is a need to start an ideal school for boys to carry
forward the call of Mira Movement in Education.
Is
not the world peace the need of the hour? Have the nations
of the East and the West not been seeking peace? Peace, true
peace will heal the nations. It is now the time to sow the
seeds of seeking peace in the minds of the young generation
of today. It will be endeavor to imbibe the spirit of brotherhood
amongst our pupils who may come from all corners of the world
to study at Sadhu Vaswani International School . The world
today needs men and women of character. Therefore, we will
endeavor to lay stress on character building education – an
education which may integrate the character of the pupils
to a proper development of the body and training and will
power and emotions. We intend to carry forward the Mira Movement
in Education further through Sadhu Vaswani International School
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