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Prerana’ which means, “Sublime Inspiration” was started in the year 2001 as an outcome of the immediate requirement to bring into focus the changing needs of the modern child. The drudgery of the endless exams and tests early intellectualization, have deprived children of their natural innocence and the simple joys of childhood. It was in the midst of burning issues, that ‘Prerana’ from an inspiring ideal became a tangible reality. Prerana has brought a happy smile and bright light into the lives of the children and parents. In the conventional schools where a child is expected to sit at a desk reading and writing for 3 to 4 hours, the teacher in a Waldorf school strives to teach the children through practical and meaningful day to day activities.
Art and aesthetics, history and culture, endearing languages and enduring customs, the rhythm of life and harmony of faith, all go into the making of Incredible India!. India was the nerve centre of different cultures; art and tradition, where the Arabian nights formed as significant part of Indian story telling as the tales from Krishnadevaraya. It is cauldron, where Polo existed with the local Kabbadi. Over a period of time, there was a dimensional change in the teaching and learning process. And the momentum drifted from pursuit of knowledge to exam oriented study. A young child’s education is no child’s play. Indian toddlers in the sophisticated new age schools don’t any longer draw on paper, but on the computer screen with a mouse. With computers in the classrooms, stories are not told any longer but are shown on CD’s. With children becoming more &more tech-savvy they are getting that much more isolated with self indulgent activities like –videogames, TV and now the iPod.
In India especially where education is considered sacred, parents and society at large gives it an important place in one’s life. Hence the child is under perennial pressure to perform well from the start that is Nursery itself. The danger is that education may become more important than the child himself. No doubt, the child should be motivated to seek their limits, but at the ripe time
when the child is ready for it. It is in this pressure filled, fiercely competitive world that one finds the need for the Waldorf system of education. The Indian education system is going through a major transition and Waldorf Education has come like a breath of fresh air.
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