Children's University

Children’s University (CU) is a unique enterpr ise in the educational arena of Gujarat. Our bcardinal aim is to guide stakeholders and beneficiaries on the path leading to genuine child development and education per se. Our immediate, mediate and ultimate beneficiaries are children from age of minus 9 months to adolescents of 18 years, their parents, teachers, teacher-educators, curriculum designers, policy makers, and volunteers of NGOs working in the areas related to child development and education. To fulfill our aim, we will start by taking up extensive research studies on child and its multiphasic development, along with experiments in child-education. For this, we will seek guidance and counsel from the experts in child education in India and abroad. We have a clear vision of the child and its progressive unfoldment.

Objectives of the university would be formulated in the light of the guidance that we can derive from Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sri Aurobindo and also many other pioneering educationists of Gujarat, India and the other parts of the world. Ideal of nationalism which is in harmony with the ideal of internationalism. Education of the body, vital consciousness, mind as also psychic consciousness and spirituality should be placed in the focus of the research and educational activities of the university.

The vision of the children’s university is threefold :

• The children of today have to be prepared to become builders of the future, - the future which would be marked by replacement of competitive individualism by the synthesis of individual liberty, collective egalitarianism and universal and spiritual fraternity;
• The future will be liberated from disabling scepticism and from comforting arrestation of quest of knowledge, and progress will be accelerated by ardent aspirations to realise higher spiritual truths and their manifestation in physical life;
• The new world of the future will cultivate material life so as to make it prosperous and rich and it will replace poverty wherever it exists by elimination of drudgery, exploitation and slavery and encourage nobility, dignity and continuous empowerment.
• The children’s university will lead the children of today to build a new world of friendliness, mutuality and harmony that transcends all barriers of narrowness and blind conflicts resulting from exclusivism and burden of the past that strives to linger against the pressure of the future of uplifting light and prosperity.

The mission of the children’s university will be to undertake vast areas of research regarding the child and the future, so as to plough the results of research into the making of an effective three fold program in the state of Gujarat and elsewhere :

• Every child matters;
• Integral development of the child that unities scientific realism and aesthetic creativity under the uplifting power of the synthesis of science and spirituality;
• Synthesis of the East and the West, of the ancient and the modern, by means of intense studies of the lessons of history directed towards the task of building a new world of knowledge, freedom and prosperity that are denied to none.