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The Mother's International School (MIS) is a private secondary school in
The school was founded on 23 April 1956 by the founders Mr Surendra Jauhar and Mr Nathaniel Pearson, with the blessings of The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, a spiritualist, the spiritual partner and collaborator of Aurobindo.
The school's motto "More True, Forever More True" was given by the Mirra Alfassa and the school's emblem portrays a bird in flight rising towards heaven. When asked about the date of the school's opening, the Mother replied "23456". And as the only possible date was 23 April 1956, it was this day that the school first opened.
When the school started out, a batch (or a grade) was of about 15 children, but today a batch has 180 students. The school has three wings, the Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary.
The school teaches four languages:
The Mother's International School, website
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New Delhi
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, India
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. It is an establishment of the Sri Aurobindo Education Society, an agency of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It shares its campus with the New Delhi branch of the Ashram. The school is an English-medium co-educational institution affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education
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(CBSE).
In 2001, ''Outlook
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s "C-Fore Best School Survey" had ranked MIS as the best school in Delhi. It won News Wiz 2018 Episode 7.
The school shares a campus with other institutions including the alternative education
Alternative education encompasses many pedagogical approaches differing from mainstream pedagogy. Such alternative learning environments may be found within state, charter, and independent schools as well as home-based learning environments. ...
school, Mirambika. Mirambika and The Mother's International often collaborate to celebrate certain events like Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was a spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and ...
's birthday. The schools share the same sports ground on campus. The campus also hosts a bakery, iron-work unit, wood-work unit, candle-making and handmade paper unit, vocational training
Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education can also be seen as that type of education given to an ind ...
centre, and book store. The school also has a "Pre-Primary Wing" after the closing of Mira Nursery.
History
The school was founded on 23 April 1956 by the founders Mr Surendra Jauhar and Mr Nathaniel Pearson, with the blessings of The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, a spiritualist, the spiritual partner and collaborator of Aurobindo.
The school's motto "More True, Forever More True" was given by the Mirra Alfassa and the school's emblem portrays a bird in flight rising towards heaven. When asked about the date of the school's opening, the Mother replied "23456". And as the only possible date was 23 April 1956, it was this day that the school first opened.
When the school started out, a batch (or a grade) was of about 15 children, but today a batch has 180 students. The school has three wings, the Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary.
Enrollment
The school has a student population of about 2,400 pupils with an average section size of 30-35 students. Each grade has five sections, A-E, aside from grade 11 and 12, which have sections till F.Academics
The school teaches four languages: English
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* English language
* English people
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, Hindi
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, Sanskrit
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and French. It also teaches mathematics, science and social studies till Class 10. There are three main streams for study beyond Class 10: Science, Commerce and Humanities.
For classes 1 and 2, a single teacher and assistant teacher teach all the subjects; the 3rd grade onwards, there is a different teacher for each subject, with one of them being the class teacher. The student/teacher ratio is approximately 40.
See also
*Integral education
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*The Doon school
The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mode ...
* St. Xavier's Collegiate School
* Modern School
*Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust. It was founded on 7 November 1938 by Dr K.M Munshi, with the support of Mahatma Gandhi. The trust programmes through its 119 centres in India, 7 centres abroad and 367 constituent instit ...
References
External links
The Mother's International School, website
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