What system of education will be used in Auroville?
It is less a system than an environment. We want to give everyone, and especially our children, the possibility of living in an environment which constantly helps them to evolve and to become that which they can become when there is no difference between school and home or between study and play. The learning process will no longer be something which is turned on from 7.30 to 11.30 a.m., but the natural attitude of a normally developed mind in this universe during its whole life, an attitude of inquiry, a joy of knowing, and a joy of being and of being able to do. In ancient India the education of the Brahmin was not limited to a few hours a day. You learned twenty-four hours a day to be a Brahmin. It was the same with the medieval knight. The artist of the renaissance did not go to school from 9.00 to 11.00. He was apprenticed to an artist twenty-four hours a day and 365 days a year. Outside of his laboratory a physicist is still a physicist, and a mathematician remains a mathematicia
