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Learning Beyond Classrooms

It takes Home, School, and a community to bring up a child. It all starts with the home
where all the learning interaction begins, schools facilitate further and community adds
experienced learning. At Diya, our teachers are constantly striving to innovate learning
process combining all the above to groom children as they go out to explore the world.
When children come home every day, they have exciting stories to tell, It could be
about what happened in class, with their friends, some construction, and development
at DIYA or addition of computers in computers lab. the list never ends . Give them the
time they deserve every day for them to share their day's experience at DIYA. There is a
whole lot of investment happening at DIYA and while you come to know from periodi-
cal release from newsletters, it will be exciting for children if you listen to them.
The second level of education starts with your participation by volunteering and of
course before this showing up for every opportunity for interaction at school where
painstakingly Academic team elaborates on what they are doing to improve delivera-
bles at school. Show up, understand, participate and question and beyond this, if there
is any contribution you can make volunteer.
The next level of education comes from the community and the African proverb " It
takes a village to bring up a child " is still relevant today except for that village now is
GLOBAL and INTERNET is the large community. There is so much to explore and learn
from what is happening around the globe. While school is doing a great job with ISA
certification preparing children to be global citizens, it is also important for parents to
be aware of developments and discuss with children particularly those who are in high
schools, they do understand current affairs, have their own opinion need some guidance
to fine tune their understanding.
Inspire children with great stories of Greta Thunberg from SWEDEN, aged 15 is protest-
ing about the need for immediate action to combat climate change to save this planet .

Ritesh Agarwal from INDIA who at the age of 17 started budget hotel " OYO" based on
his own personal experience of not getting information on good hotels when he was
traveling to small places In a matter of 8 years this company has gone global including
CHINA and valued in billions

Shravan Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Age 15 and 17, siblings are the brain behind
"GODIMENSIONS" APP developing company that works on Andoird and IOS applica-
tions. Their aim is to develop a simple technological solution for the digital world. They
are the youngest Mobile Application Developers in INDIA and from their own acknowl-
edgment, they achieved this by " reading books and solving problems givenn to them"

I will end this with this from Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my Education .... Mark Twain

Babu Rao,
Admin Manager