In the beginning, all efforts will seem futile and nothing might seem to happen.
Suddenly one day, the wait will be over and normalcy will emerge.
The seed will split open, sprout and become a plant. But we shouldn’t forget one thing.
When we thought nothing was happening, the seed was doing its work under the soil,
silently.
Upcoming Events
We believe you are reading this page at this point in time, not just by chance or coincidence, but through the play of a larger relationship which binds all of us together.
‘Cuckoo Children’ began as a movement in 2004 as an approach to providing rural children with facilities that ensured they grew healthily in engaging environments, regardless of their financial background. It set up libraries in remote villages and hamlets and screened international movies and documentaries to expand children’s imaginations. Cuckoo is an environment that channels our primordial instinct of survival into an evolved state of being, by doing. Each and every initiative born of these practices is therefore grounded in the surrender to the natural order of the Flow of the Universe.
Is this an Alternative School?
We met with Arvind Gupta and explained the idea of the school. He listened to our ideas patiently and asked us how many Government schools there were around our school and how many students studied there. We replied that there should be at least 1000 children studying in these government schools. Then he asked us if we wanted to make a difference in the life of a small bunch of children or larger groups. From then on, ‘Cuckoo’ reaffirmed that it should be a movement. A movement that can be for all children across the globe.
Methodology of Learning
Geeta Ma, 93 years old, the founder of three schools based on the principle of Naitalim, was bedridden in the hospital when we met her in August 2019. To her, the definition of Naitalim and learning is “One cannot define Naitalim. Accumulation of experiences from cradle to grave is the learning process”, she smiled.
There are no rules and regulations here about what stream of knowledge should be a part of the syllabus and what should not be. All kinds of knowledge may come in under one condition – a condition that challenges us -‘Those who teach should become children and those who learn should become adults. If the teacher does not become a child, he/she is not teaching, and if the child does not grow up, he/she is not learning. When children look only at the word, and not at the reality, their ‘knowledge’ is a delusion. A child will be given the knowledge that is needed to satisfy the demands of his life. Given the knowledge that is needed today, children will become capable of learning whatever he/she will need in the future.