(2)    CHIEF DIRECTOR’s MESSAGE (Mr. Shailesh Thakkar)

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than furnish the mind, to train it to use its own power rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others".
                     The education process is dynamic and has revolutionized; children are well exposed global phenomena affect one and all, with this, the role of education has become all the more crucial and even challenges the pedagogy. It is required to create equilibrium between the material or physical needs of a child and his moral obligations. Further, with the cut throat competition becoming the norm of the hour there is no scope for mediocre. As a student, the prime duty education is to amass all possible knowledge from all accessible sources. This requires attention to and application of the taught items and be a keen observer of things happening around. Remember, there is no option to hard work and it is only hard work that pays in the long run.

                      As India makes rapid strides into the 21st Century in almost every aspect, we are today on the fascinating threshold for the right balance for coexistence between the past and present, the old and the new, the heritage and the modernity. Furthermore, a vibrant future is constantly evolving - a future of collaborative as well as individualistic learning and existence; a future which will need imagination, creativity, multiple skills, international-mindedness, quick-wittedness and an inherent power of anticipation for success. Such in the world the young learners are emerging into today. Hence, the increasing gap between the perceived learning and actual learning needs to be addressed. More life-like experiential components would have to find their way frequently into a good curriculum for a dynamic, effective and optimum learning experience.
‘Sa Vidhya Ya Vimukhthaye’ (Education is that which liberates)

                     Thus, a vibrant curriculum must reflect on sifting out knowledge that is becoming obsolete or redundant, and take the individual into the realm of coexistence with the immediate and future environs. It must make the individual THINK!
                    In a rapidly evolving world, education, ideally needs to be a system exposing the learner to not just enhanced learning but, more importantly, preparing for a successful journey through life itself. It must not just take on the responsibility of preparing for the future, but to help understand and carry along the knowledge and wisdom of the past too. On the one hand, to meet the demands of the ever changing competitiveness, one must simply learn to appreciate constant change. On the other, one must not lose sight of things which are constant or at least need to be: like human values, the very aspect of creation and being, and the social, moral and cultural ethics of a family and society at large.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world”

SHAILESH THAKKAR
(CHIEF DIRECTOR)