Walk out Walk on by Margaret J. Wheatley & Deborah Frieze

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley & Deborah Frieze
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2011-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

I had heard about Shikshantar for years before I made my first visit in 2005. Through our work together at Berkana, Manish Jain, one of Shikshantar’s co-founders, had become a colleague and close friend. But no matter how many long and late-night conversations we would have about Shikshantar’s approach to rethinking education, I couldn’t wrap my mind around what they actually did. Manish talked repeatedly about swaraj, Gandhi’s invitation to take responsibility for ourselves. He would patiently explain how Shikshantar’s work was to experiment with creating our own learning, weaning ourselves from the ready-made world where all that’s expected of us is to be good consumers.

When I arrived at Shikshantar, I observed a hive in action—people everywhere discovering and inventing their own unique ways to grow and prepare food, maintain health, construct household goods, tell stories, create art. At first, there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to their activities. Everyone carried on with his or her own vision, forming partnerships and teams as needed. It was only after a full week immersed in this lively environment that I began to see what held the whole together. Shikshantar’s coherence is derived from its shared values and beliefs that serve as an underground aquifer nourishing all the activity above the surface. That aquifer runs deep, saturated with India’s three-thousand-year-old philosophical and spiritual heritage—which is why it matters to listen to the voices of the wise men and women who have come before. And which is why we began our journey to India the only way we could have—with the insights of the wisdom-keepers who have shaped everything Shikshantar is today.

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