Satyavadi Vana Vidyalaya (now Satyabadi High School, Sakhigoal) is an Indian school in Sakhigopal,

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

. It is a pre-secondary and Secondary school, located at Sakhigopal a part of Puri district, in the Indian state of Odisha. It was established by renowned writer and social worker Utkalamani

Gopabandhu Das Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), popularly known as ''Utkalamani'' (''Jewel of Utkal'' or Odisha), was a social worker, reformer, political activist, journalist, poet and essayist. Early life Gopabandhu Das was born on 9 October 1877 in Suando ...

in 1909 (British India).

History

Established in 1905 as an experiment in the field of education by

, the school started with 19 students. According to Das, schools had to become man-making industries and had to be instrumental in the harmonious development of a child's personality. As a model for other schools, children from all

caste Caste is a form of social stratification characterised by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultura ...

s and classes sat, dined, lived and studied together. There was ample scope in the school for co-curricular activities including social service, exercise, kavi sammelans. The school aimed to cultivate ideals of patriotism in the hearts of students. Sir

Ashutosh Mukherjee Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awar ...

and many other scholars were impressed by its simplicity and naturalistic harmonious approach towards education.Bureau's Education (+2 CHSE, Odisha) published by Pustak Bhawan, Bhubaneswar.

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