Monday, 3 March 2014

[www.keralites.net] School Practicing and teaching Organic Farming - Sholai School Palni hills near Kodaikanal. Tamilnadu

 

Green School of Thought Sholai School Palni hills near Kodaikanal. 

■ The school practices organic farming and grows pepper, coffee and seasonal fruits and vegetables.

■ It also runs its own dairy and not just produces its own organic milk and cheese but even exports home-grown coffee to Germany

 

■ Students here are taught swimming, yoga, bird watching, horse riding, trekking and outdoor and indoor games.

 

■ The school is powered by solar panels and generators powered by micro hydro energy

The sun set on the Empire in India decades ago, but its shining in the Palni hills near Kodaikanal. In Tamil Nadu's very own Hogwarts, Sholai School with its founder Brian Jenkins,68, playing Dumbledore, a magical realm of green, rolling hills, continues to generate its own power and water by harnessing the energy of Nature. The school practices organic farming and grows pepper, coffee and seasonal fruits and vegetables. It also runs its own dairy, and not just produces its own organic milk and cheese but even exports home-grown coffee to Germany.

Students here are taught swimming, yoga, bird watching, horse riding, trekking and outdoor and indoor games. In the past, they have also built check dams and a bridge across a small river that runs through the campus.

Sholai School with its other divisions collectively called CLOAAT (Centre for Learning, Organic Agriculture and Appropriate Technology), is one of its kind in all of India.

It was founded in 1991 by Brian Jenkins (68), a British social anthropologist, thinker and teacher. Jenkins first came to India in 1969 to study Buddhist meditation at Bodhgaya. By then, he became familiar with Jiddu Krishnamurthy's teachings, and later the man himself as he began teaching at Krishnamurthy's Brockwood Park School in the UK. After 14 years in Brockwood, Jenkins decided to do something on his own. Krishnamurthy advised him to not be "a blueprint".

 
Other similar schools in India 

Mirambika, New Delhi

This New Delhi based experimental school run by Aurobindo Ashram is based on Sri Aurobindo and Mother's principles.


 

Isha Home School,  Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Founded in 2005 by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Isha Home School strives to incorporate his educational approach into its day-to-day working.


 

The Valley School, Thatguni, Karnataka

The Valley School is based on the teachings of the eminent philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.


 

Vikasana, Bangalore, Karnataka

Vikasana is a rural centre for education inspired by David Horsburgh's philosophy of learning. It provides free education to children of all ages from landless farmers of neighboring villages.


 

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