Purpose of Stable Bow is to plant the seeds of innovation and craftsmanship for Indian children. We augment schooling.
It’s schooling and not just school, because it refers to all forms of formal learning. Which includes parents as teachers and self-learning, in addition to school education.
Augment represents the intent to multiply and build on what schools and parents are already doing, rather than attempt to compete or replace.
Stable Bow is not driven or constrained by commercial objectives.
Measure of our success is the number of Indian children we influence and plant the love of innovation + craftsmanship by 2050.
While Indian education develops the ability to deal with volume of learning, diligence, dealing with measurable performance and hard work – there is a more needed. Today’s world of constant change needs education with a lot more Exploration, Experimentation, Experience and Expression.
Children learn best by doing / creating – not by learning from textbooks or taking tests. They are influenced more by their peer interactions than any other. Every child has inherent curiosity for the world around and a natural creativity that needs to be channeled. Real learning doesn’t happen in silos called ‘subjects’, but in a more connected manner where maths makes meaning thru physics and literature opens a window into history.
Given the certification structure our schools need to operate and the limited time available, it is very hard to build these into the design of the current Indian education system.
We know there are ‘alternate schools’. But, the model is not very accessible to most and there aren’t enough teachers to teach in ‘alternate schools’. This lead us to the conclusion that there has to be a program that complements the traditional India school – than competes with it.
Hence Augmented Schooling.
Still wondering why it’s called Stable Bow? See here.
Many of our thoughts are shaped by others who have thought about this more deeply. Here are some of those who inspired our thinking.
Sridhar Turaga, founder (~ story TELLER)
My focus is to build an organization over the long term that makes a real difference to children, not be constrained or solely driven by commercial objectives. I personally focus on three things that I enjoy the most thru Stable Bow – Creating great content to teach, Working with others who are equally passionate about impacting children’s education and Exploring innovation in everyday life. Click here to know more about me and here to know what I think.
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