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Issue No: 302, September 2014

Education is the main way to change society

Dr. Kabir Shaikh Auroville International Advisory Council (IAC) member Kabir Shaikh has had a long and distinguished career in education. He has taught in London and been a top educational administrator in the U.K. and in the Middle East. Until a few months ago, he was Interim Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, the first UNESCO Category 1 Institute of Education in Asia and Pacific. Auroville Today spoke to him when he came for the meeting of the IAC in August. Do you see any logical development in your career from being a science teacher in London to being the recent Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainable development? I think it was to do with being in the right place at the right time. Actually, I am an ‘accidental’ teacher because, originally, I had no intention to teach. As one of the awardees of the Indian National Science Scholarships I went to the UK in 1963 to do a Ph.D. But the pr...
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Issue No. 302, September 2014

  • Mini test ponds for the Matrimandir Lake
  • The Pool in the Garden of Consciousness
  • Education is the main way to change society
  • Is there a future for some of Auroville’s beach communities?
  • Facing out, facing in: Auroville’s Visitors’ Center
  • The Auroville Ambulance: Service in Action
  • The challenges of filming Auroville
  • Pushing the boundaries of theatre
  • In Brief
  • Letter: Visits of Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers
  • What is happening at Bharat Nivas?
  • R Kannan (Passing)

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