Shaw Public School started its journey three years ago and we have come a long way since then. Pursuing excellence in all spheres of activity and making learning a rich and varied experience are our obvious aims but we at Shaw Public School believe that we have a greater mission. While the pursuit of knowledge, we feel, will give our students immense power to explore the vastness of space as well as to reach into the minutest cell, we would also like to work towards nurturing their senses to be able to heed to the gentle stirrings of nature and to be able to listen to their hearts even as their minds are full of the fruits of knowledge. We hope to be able to touch the lives of our children in their growing years so that they may find the clarity and wisdom to live happily, confidently and freely in this frenzied world.
However, we can’t guarantee to ourselves the satisfaction that our students will succeed and be happy after they have received the ‘right education’. The answer we feel, lies not in pursuing one’s ambition, not in self oriented goal seeking but in building love, empathy and unconditional caring – which for us is what constitutes ‘right education’. Only through love and caring do we hope to ensure that our students will remain untouched by the distorting influences of comparison, fear, competition and envy. We believe in a new vision of education that we hope will liberate our students from the influence of Greed and Pride. To achieve this, we will have to educate ourselves, plant the seeds with love and care and then watch them as they blossom into new life and in time, bear fruit. However in doing so, they will awaken colour and fragrance and invite new and enduring relationships. In short, they will fall into life and we hope, will live it to the fullest.