The Beginning

We began working towards starting such a school 10 years before we did. We decided to work at various levels and situations: from college to high school to primary and middle school, to parents workshops on how to teach children at home, at residential and day schools, taking classes for book sellers on how to make their sales depend on the what is between the covers of the book... 

We also decided to home school our own child – Nirupama. We could not ask people to send their children to us while ours studied in a fancy residential school. She is the youngest published author of a translation “Parthiban’s Dream” from Tamil epic history Parthiban kanavu. She is now a student in Canada, pursuing studies in language and history. 

Our first break was when Sri C. Subramaniam wrote an article in the Hindu, “Barefoot teachers, brave new methods” about what he envisaged as the future of Shikshayatan. He wanted us to take our methods to the rest of India and suggested a teacher education centre at Arasavanangkadu.

Tweet: C. Subramaniam wrote an article in the Hindu, “Barefoot teachers, brave new methods” about what he envisaged as the future of Shikshayatan."

Shikshayatan today:

We have, by the Grace of our resident deity, Sri Vidyaganapathy, grown today to:

1. Creating our own teaching methodology and synthesising it with philosophy and have named it QuadSeek.

2. Taking the methods to more than 40 institutions 

3. Helping start and holding hands for more than 17 schools for the first five years

4. Creating our own teacher education academy – QuadSeek Academy of Teacher Education [QuATE] not only for teachers but also for assistant teachers, heads of department, principals and entrepreneurs and parents.
5. Published a number of articles in the New Indian Express [which brought the collection of articles as a book “Your child can be a Genius”] and other papers and journals.