Type Private school Gender Co-educational Phone 011 2686 3741 | Established 1981 Website www.mirambika.org/ Founded 1981 | |
Affiliation National Institute of Open Schooling Address Sri Aurobindo Marg, Opp IIT Building, New Delhi, Delhi 110016 Similar The Mother's Internatio, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Vasant Valley School, Mira Nursery School | ||
Mirambika - Free Progress School, is based on the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It is situated at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram campus in New Delhi.Learning at Mirambika is based on the view that each individual comes into life with an evolutionary purpose and corresponding potentialities: educating means drawing out this potential. The school is not affiliated to any board and the children take up the National Institute of Open Schooling.
History
In 1981, Mirambika (Mira, from the name Mira Alfasa of the `Mother,' the disciple of Sri Aurobindo, and Ambika meaning "mother" in Sanskrit) was conceived, in an attempt to implement the educational agenda of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It started with 57 children and today, after two decades it has managed to hold the number at under 150.