Topic: " Future of the School"
Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi
Education Activist
In the Indian social system, we consider education as the foundation of the all-round development of the person. Our Ex-President Late Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam said, “If we want to make India a Super Power we need to work harder on three people: Student, Teacher and Parent as these three will play a major role to create a future India of our dreams.
Inspired by these words Mr. Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi stepped into the field of education and started working towards his aim. Sachin Usha Vilas Joshi, a person who failed several unit tests in school now holds seven degrees in various subjects from Pune University in the field of Management.
In spite of getting attractive offers from renowned companies, he did not take up a job in multi-national companies but chose to start a “School for Failures.” After proving his mettle to change the perception of people towards failure he expanded his vision and dreamt of taking education out of classroom boundaries.
He made his mission to replace blackboard teaching with real-life experiences. To acknowledge his contribution in the field of education he was invited by the European Council for the World Forum of Democracy.
He is the First Indian to give a speech on Education in the European Parliament. He has also worked on many novel concepts and started India's first "Mobile School” for underprivileged children. He is the founder and Director of the unique concept of “Education on Wheels” for which he has been awarded by the Limca Book of World Records.
He felt miserable to see children deprived of education and then he took an initiative of bringing children who had never attended school into the mainstream of education through his campaign
“Every Child Counts”. Under this project, 6500 children were admitted in different Municipal and Government Schools.
He also educationally adopted 300 girl students from Sayyed community. What makes it furthermost special is the fact that this is the first generation of the Sayyed community to receive a formal education.
Mr.Sachin Joshi is the founder-director of Espalier - The Experimental School” which is a combination of Gandhi and Einstein Philosophy.
This Experimental school has been awarded as “The Most Innovative School” as well as The Best Experiential School in India.
A world Organization "Design For Change" has honoured the most prestigious "I can Award” to the Espalier school and bestowed "Edu Hero Award" to Sachin Joshi for his techniques of innovation in education.
Recently he has established Espalier-The Heritage School. A school-based on experiential learning to carry out innovative research in the field of education.
He has minutely studied the development of a child’s brain and its co-relation with education.His research has been included in the syllabus for D. Ed teachers course.He also has the privilege to be an active member of different Government Education Committees.His innovative thought of adding his mother's name before his Father's name has been widely appreciated by the society and he has been instrumental in giving a new definition to the middle name.
Taking note of his commendable achievements great personalities like Honorable ExPresident Mrs Pratibhatai Patil, International Thinker Mr Sandeep Waslekar, Senior Socialist Anna Hazare, Politician Shashi Tharoor, Social Activist Shaam Manav, Late poet Mangesh Padgaonkar, Sports psychologist Bhishmaraj Baam sir and many more have blessed and appreciated his body of work.