SECMOL like alternative education vs Traditional schooling
Raj and I are vacationing in Ladakh, and we had an opportunity to visit the #SECMOLCampus - the inspiration behind the super hit movie 3 Idiots! To say the least, we were beyond inspired - yet the Q remains, will I send R n D to a school like this if I had a choice! Founded by Sonam Wangchuk and inaugurated by HH the Dalai Lama, the SECMOL Campus is located near the village of Phey in the Indus valley in the outskirts of Leh. The Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) is an alternative education system that focuses on sustainability, leadership and culture. The motto of the school is to move away from 3 Rs (Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic) to 3 Hs - Bright Head, Kind Heart and Skilled Hands, and the student guide who took us around the school on a tour seemed to be displaying this, and he’d been here for less than a month or so! ‘Learning by Doing’ vs blackboard and books makes this school stand out - and one can’t but gape at how different life is out here