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Deeper The Root Taller Would Be The
Tree
Parental Workshop – 26th November 2016
Deeper The Root, Taller would be the Tree.
It's a realised truth. The deeper and more profound one's knowledge and wisdom, the higher would be the individual growth. It's not about attaining shallow knowledge and resting one's laurels over short-lived successes. It's about fundamentally overhauling one's thoughts to build a strong, meditative, philosophical base. And the result will be a life full of calmness, confidence and wisdom.
That is what we do at VKE. We do not push the students to grow high. We teach them to go within, reflect deep within the recesses of their mind, where they will find the prefect attainment of peace and balance of life. And attainment of that wisdom will take them so high up in life, that the world will look up to them, for shade to rest in, for leadership; for peace and yet material abundance; where there would be no shortage for anything?
Deeper The Root, Taller would be the Tree.
The Ancient Vedantic Tree Tree of Wisdom of India The roots above and the
branches below indicating staying connected
always with God, The Unified Field, Allah,
Whatever You May call it.
And yet be in the Sansara and be a perfect
mother, father, husband, wife, son,
daughter and professional
Your Children
5 Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing
for itself. They come through you
but not from you, And though they are with you
yet they belong not to you.
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Your Children
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by Kahlil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
- On Children By Kahlil Gibran
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On Children
Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by Kahlil Gibran
Vedanta with IB Become Aware- Consciousness & Truth
•Five Senses - Who is seeing, hearing? •Our Sun. •A Torch Light •The Material World •Degeneration •Infinite Possibilities, Infinite Success, Infinite Joy - No Sickness, No Disease - A Portable Paradise
God Talks with Arjuna
THE BHAGAVAD GITA Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda
• At the time India was
conquered by Western
colonial powers,
according to historian
Dr. J.T. Sunderland, she
was the wealthiest
nation on the globe.
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“Let us remember”, wrote the eminent historian and
philosopher Will Durant (in The Case for India,
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930), “that India
was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the
mother of Europe’s languages; that she was the
mother of our philosophy, mother, through the
Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother…of the
ideals embodied in Christianity, mother, through
the village community, of self-government and
democracy. Mother India in many ways the mother
of us all”.
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God Talks with Arjuna THE BHAGAVAD GITA Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda
Chapter II - Verse 31 - Page No. 246
World religious authority Huston Smith recalls that in the 1950s the eminent British historian Toynbee
predicted that in the 21st century, “India the conquered would conquer her conquerors”.
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God Talks with Arjuna THE BHAGAVAD GITA Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda Chapter II - Verse 31 - Page No. 246
What Skills are Needed for Kids in the Future?
New Media Literacy
Teamwork and Collaboration Skills
Social Intelligence
Design Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
Oral and Written Communication Skills
Leadership Skills
Year 2028 And Beyond
Thinking - Critical & Creative
Education Is Not The Preparation For Life - Education Is Life John Dewey, USA
The deepest desire in a parent’s heart is to see that one’s child achieve success
in Life. Yet how many of us realize that the way we are going about; is not
helping?
Einstein, Churchill and Edison had learning styles that were not suited to their
school style. The same mismatch continues today for Millions of others.
Every child who has ever heard the story of Aladdin, dreams of finding a magic
lamp that when rubbed, would deliver a genie, who could grant every wish.
As adults, we think that there are no such things. But what if wishes were to
come true? If you know, that there is a way for you to make all your wishes
come true, would you allow your soul to complete them for you? Would you
then believe in the Aladdin’s wonder lamp, which is within you?
Discovering this secret from within every child
is ‘Schooling’ and is ‘Parenting’
Unlock this secret power within! Education is the manifestation of that secret power, which is within every child.
A society grows great when wise men plant trees of
meditative reflection and education, in whose shade
they knew they shall never sit in. In the footsteps of our
ancient vedantic rishis and saints, with divine guidances, are the roots of our effort of
“This Knowledge Tree
at VKIDSS”
We are working towards it
• We at Victorious Kidss have been working all along to provide this kind of education. We are giving the quality IB education to all our students. The evaluation for Primary Years Programmes - the children make the connections with the world. Through the Middle Years Programme , the children understands the laws and effects, and through the Diploma Programme, they focus their professional talent to the world outside and become successful. enterpreuners.
•Professional Development - Teachers & Parents Walking The Talk •Infrastructure
The world our kids are going
to live in is changing four times faster than our schools.
DR. WILLARD DAGGAETT Director of International Centre for
Leadership and Education
School should be the best party in town.
PETER KLINE The Everyday Genius
Vedantic Philosophy at VKE
- Swami Vivekananda
Learning How To Learn?Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in
man.
No knowledge comes from outside
What we want is Western Science coupled with Vedanta, Brahmacharya as the guiding motto, also Shraddha and
faith in one's own Self.
Vedanta with Modern Education
• Emphasis on knowing yourself
• Consciousness - Self Worth
• Who am I, where am I, what is
the purpose of my life?
• Respecting the freedom of
Students
• Meditation - Character
• Yoga- Controlling your Mind
• Value based learning
• Concept Based teaching
• We follow the Latest
Research in the field of
Education
• Multiple Intelligence
• Learning Styles
• Developing positive Attitudes
& Life Long Skills
learning is not
for earning.
Learning is to
build a good
character
Three Principles for Brilliant Success Harmony, Wealth and Happiness
I often have some sessions with our kids -
1) Establish Truth in words, actions and thoughts.
2) Have Faith in God and know that the Heavenly Father, Mother, Heavenly Friend, is our Beloved God and is always protecting us.
3) Have faith in your own self and know that ‘You Can’ handle anything. Everything is possible.
BRILLIANT
International Baccalaureate and VKE
• 48 years IB research coupled with 6000 years of Vedantic Knowledge
• The International Baccalaureate® (IB) offers high quality programmes of international education to a worldwide community of schools. There are more than 1,116,000 IB students at 4500 schools in 147 countries.
• Leader in the field of international education
Why International Baccalaureate (IB)?
“An International education is not an alternative to a National education.
An International education refocuses a National education by reflecting it in the mirror of a global
economy that is sustained by global communication.”
The World our kids are going to live in, is changing four times faster than our local school.
George Walker, Director General IB February 2000
© IBO 2004
Why Do We Come To School?
• Learn
• Higher studies
• Professional training - Business, Doctor, Engineer, Computers?
• Jobs?
• Money
• Truth - Faith in God - Faith in one’s own self -
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Authorization Certificates
Victorious Kidss Educares is only the second school to have all
three IB Programmes in Pune &
one of the nine in whole of India.
Why Victorious Kidss Educares? • IB has complimented that we have angel
like parent who speak so well about our school
• Inner Discipline
• Student Profile, concept based curriculum developing excellent character
• Familial Culture – A home away from home
• School is the best party in town
• Preparing leaders for the world of tomorrow
Why VKE? We specialise - Discovering the secret power from
within every child is schooling - is parenting
• Every child matters
• The only school to have Apple iMac and iPad training for 3 Years Old onwards
• WiFi Campus 204 MBPS
• Apple iMac and iPad Labs
• Windows Labs having Dell and Lenovo Computers
• Digital Classrooms having 6’x4’ Interactive White Boards by HCL and powered by Lenovo Computers
• Robotics & Photography
Excerpts from the PYP Evaluation Report by IB Asia Pacific
The school is a warm and happy place and it was obvious to the visiting team that everyone in the school was valued and respected as learners and facilitators. The spirit of the school is built on a deep respect and belief in the learner as well as strongly evident spiritual dimensions. The school has an open enrollment policy and has purposefully kept its fees at a modest level in order to ensure the widest possible opportunity for enrollment.
There are many features of Victorious Kidss Educares that need to be recognized as the school has worked diligently over the last three years to reach this point in its growth and development.
The leadership of the school with its gentle, inclusive style is one that stands out for parents, students and teachers. The team was impressed with the way the school began its day together which demonstrated a care for the wider dimensions of the human spirit in offering a time of togetherness.
The new facility is to be commended and once the plans for enhanced IT, Libraries, cafeterias and sports facilities come into fruition it will indeed be a model for others to emulate.
Across the school there is a desire to meet the needs of all students and the fact that each class has two home room teachers shows the commitment to providing learning environments of quality. In addition teachers are supported by learning specialists and a team of single subject teachers who add to the vitality of the programme in a positive manner. The fact that these teams are able to meet often is a strength, as the school is utilizing a daily hour and Saturday work days for consultation and collaborative planning in a positive manner.
Of particular note however are the enthusiastic students who showed their love and excitement of learning in a positive manner throughout the visit.
6th February 2012
Excerpts from the PYP Evaluation Report by IB Asia Pacific
Every child has, at birth,
a greater potential intelligence than
Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton,
or Einstein ever used.
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Glenn Doman Author of Teach To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence
That system which aims at educating our boys in the
same manner as that of the man who battered his ass, being advised that it could
thereby be turned into horse, should be abolished.
- Swami Vivekananda
Owing to undue domination exercised by the parents, our boys do not get free scope of growth.
- Swami Vivekananda
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. The plant develops its own nature. The child also teaches itself. But you can help it to go forward in its own way
- Swami Vivekananda
Brain Use It or Lose It
• Imagine a latest Apple MacBook Pro with 500GB memory. If I buy and do not use for three years, it doesn’t lose its potential.
• After three years, all we have to do is update the system, program it and it should be as good as new.
• But not for a human system, the computer would not lose 500GB memory capacity, but the human beings do.
• Imagine a child locked for fifteen years
• A computer lid is left fifteen days, half open at 15 degrees angle
• If you tie up your hand for 15 days, you may not be able to use it.
The Reading Mother
You may have tangible wealth unfold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be;
I had a Mother who read to me
-by Strickland Gillilan
Six vital and most valuable
facts for parents to know:-
• The brain of a new human being grows explosively, but less quickly each succeeding day, from conception to 6 years of age.
• When does the heart form and when does the brain?
• On conception 50,000,000,000,000 and after 30 days 1,25,000,000,000,000 brain neurons
• The brain grows by use, every minute 2,50,000 brain neurons; which are 360,000,000 per day.
• The brain runs everything.
Six vital and most valuable
facts for parents to know:-
• The potential of our human brain is truly great. A twelve months old baby, a 2.4 year old baby, from your’s and my home, can do such joyful things, difficult for us as modern people to believe.
• We can increase the possibility of attaining ever-higher levels of potential by starting early in the life of a young child. While the brain is growing at a fantastic rate.
• This early start is most effective when carried out and initiated by the tiny child’s mother and father. And only when applied with joy and love.
We have training centers for management, how to be an engineer or a doctor, how to play or learn some musical instruments or play some
games. Do we have a center to build Good Human Characters?
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© 2016 Marc Prensky
EDUCATION TO BETTER THEIR WORLD THE EMERGING VISION OF A NEW K-12 EDUCATION
FOR THE EMPOWERED KIDS OF TOMORROW
IB Asia-Pacific Annual Conference, Hyderabad, India, March, 2016
LET ME BEGIN WITH
WHAT’S REALLY ON YOUR MINDS…
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Is our
traditional
education
system guiding
our children -
to become like
him?
Respect for elders
PARENTING STYLE
or Independence
Obedience or Self-reliance
Good manners or Curiosity
Well-behaved or Considerate
“AUTHORITARIAN” TRUMP © 2016 Marc Prensky
© 2016 Marc Prensky BETT Latin America, Mexico City, October 9, 2016
HOW MUCH WILL HIS WORLD
HAVE CHANGED IN 20 YEARS?
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OUR KIDS ARE NO LONGER THE
PEOPLE WE WERE IN SCHOOL
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PYP cl. of 2028
MYP cl. of 2032
DIPLOMA cl. of 2035
STAN/VARD cl. of 2040
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© 2016 Marc Prensky BETT Latin America, Mexico City, October 9, 2016
TODAY, WHAT WE ASK OF OUR KIDS IN
THIS WORLD IS…
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© 2016 Marc Prensky BETT Latin America, Mexico City, October 9, 2016
“AN APPRENTICESHIP
TO THE WORLD”
© 2016 Marc Prensky
KIDS HAVE ALWAYS …
LEARNED MORE…
AND BEEN MOST MOTIVATED…
WHEN DOING REAL PROJECTS…
IN THE REAL WORLD…
WE NEED TO
FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE
THE IDEA OF WHAT GLOBAL
EDUCATION SHOULD BE
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EDUCATION CAN NO LONGER BE
JUST AN ACADEMIC PROCESS
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WE NEED TO BE
EMPOWERING OUR KIDS FURTHER…
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…ALL NETWORKED
TOGETHER
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© 2016 Marc Prensky BETT Latin America, Mexico City, October 9, 2016
TODAY’S KIDS ARE FAR MORE
EMPOWERED
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THEY CAN DO INFINITELY MORE!
AND COLLABORATE
IN TOTALLY NEW WAYS!
WE NEED TO GET BEYOND…
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“THE MESS”
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MATH,
ENGLISH,
SCIENCE,
SOCIAL STUDIES
NOW, WITH…
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OUR KIDS ARE NO LONGER THE
PEOPLE WE WERE IN SCHOOL
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THEY ARE NOW PEOPLE WITH
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E X T E N D E D BRAINS…
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THEY’RE
ALREADY EMPOWERED
TO…
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GET THINGS DONE
ACADEMIC EDUCATION ALONE
IS NOT ENOUGH BECAUSE…
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IT SO DEEPLY
UNDERESTIMATES
WHAT OUR KIDS CAN NOW DO
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IT IS A
FUNDAMENTAL ERROR
TO THINK THAT IF WE JUST IMPROVE
“ACADEMIC EDUCATION” (AND PERHAPS ADD A FEW MORE SKILLS)
ALL WILL BE WELL
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SO IT’S TIME FOR A
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NEW
PERSPECTIVE
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OUR TIMES DEMAND
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AN EDUCATION THAT GOES
BEYOND “ACADEMIC” EDUCATION TO
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AN
“EDUCATION TO
BETTER THEIR WORLD”
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• BETTER ENDS
• BETTER MEANS
• BETTER CURRICULUM
• BETTER TEACHING
• BETTER TECHNOLOGY USE
SO OUR KIDS BECOME
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“SOLUTIONARIES”
Zoe Weil
Reading
Mathematical
Thinking
Understanding
written
communication
Writing
Research
(Critical Thinking)
(Scientific
Thinking)
(Citizenship?)
TAUGHT
SYSTEMATICALLY
TODAY
TODAY’S GLOBAL K-12 CURRICULUM IS
INCREDIBLY NARROW
© 2016 Marc Prensky
THE EDUCATION OUR KIDS NEED
DOESN’T FULLY EXIST ANYWHERE
TODAY…
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BUT WE CAN CREATE IT!
© 2016 Marc Prensky
International Mindedness
• We need our kids to “become active,
compassionate and lifelong learners who
understand that other people, with their
differences, can also be right.”
• - IB Mission Statement
Where do we want to go?
Towards A Better
and More
Peaceful World