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Mitraniketan Peoples College
Have you ever heard of educational institution having no regular exams? Have you ever heard of education which is based on the integral development of the individual? Can you imagine a course which operates not on syllabus but based on the need of the students?
Mitraniketan People's College is an innovative educational institution which makes nonformal education meaningful and realistic. It was started in the year 1996 in a rural area in the Trivandrum District. The college was started by the renowned Gandhian Sri. K. Viswanathan.
The major feature of People's College is it follows the principle of Life Long Learning. The major features include
Anybody who is above the age of 35 can join this college
No educational qualification is reqired
There is no exam, students learn following the process of "learning by doing" under the guidance of expert teachers
It is a one year long course and anybody who joins the college will have to stay there and learn
The college gives training on various voational skills like agriulture, computer, plumbing, carpentry, electrical, fruit and vegetable processing, automobile, tailoring and dress making. Along with these the students will be given special training in Personality Development, Sports, Yoga etc. The college intends to empower the rural youth by imparting vocational skills and by developing rural leadership. Every year 100 students gets enrolled and all of them are given very good training. Peoples college beieves that education is for individual development and not for certificates.
In this era where true essence of education is loosing this organisation through it's nonformal form of educaton, by following the great teachings of Gandhi, Tagore and the renowned educationist Grundtwig shows an alternative model of development which is focused on the integral development of the individual
Check out the website www.mitraniketan.org
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This sounds like a fantastic initiative for adults. What makes me wonder is the age restriction. Also, if the students stay in college then how do they sustain themselves and their families.
Thanks for the article, Sabith. If you have any contact information for this organization, please share.
There is a similar organization called www.vigyanaashram.com, which works on similar principle. So a great initiative, does this college have a website.
But I do also find the age restriction very odd.
Your concern is very very genuine, but I feel sorry to inform you that this college cannot include those people who are working for the sustenance of their families,as the college gives prime importance to community living. There should be initiatives for benefitng those people also, may be one day you yourself can become a great change maker following this idea, best of luck
There is no upper age limit eventhough we fixed it as 35, inorder to restrict it to youth, you may be knowing that too much heterogenity in terms of age will be difficul to handle, anyway thank you for the open commend and the link is given below www.mitraniketan.org
My name is Matt and I'm a Canadian who had the privilege of volunteering at Mitraniketan last October and November. All I can say is that anyone who is interested in Travel and community building should seriously consider experiencing this amazing NGO. The students and faculty have inspired me beyond belief and have changed my life since.
Excellent initiative... I vaguely remember reading about it since the age limit bothered me also! :) But I guess focus takes some organisations ahead of others. there are many many initiatives for children and I guess working with adults is a good and necessary approach.
May be you want to put the link www.mitraniketan.org as the original link to the story so that people are taken to the website when they hit the title. You can always edit a story after posting it! :)
There was an interesting dual system of education started by a German - Fredrick, called Portico. It was for teenagers giving them vocational training and basic education that would be enough to call them literate. They were working towards making their syllabi acceptable by the govt. Not much idea about their progress...
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