by Lakshmi Swami

Created on: August 09, 2009   Last Updated: October 25, 2010

The benefits of living in the campus

There are many schools in the world believing in the right type of education beginning from pre-school. I worked in a university which begins with pre-school and ends with awarding PhDs and the university is purely residential. The benefits that the society receives are many and the losses are minimal. The child made to learn with more responsible persons than parents. Primarily they are trained to bring out the best in the child by constantly monitoring the behavioral pattern of the child and applying remedial measures to improve the quality of living.

The boy or a girl is taught to live in a community of children of his or her age. The elders who are assigned the duty of looking after them are technically qualified for this job. They are made to be aware of their own personal conduct. They live with children and cultivate a sense of brotherhood by learning together, eating and sleeping in dormitory type of accommodation provided by the Institution. They live in very hygienic environment.

They are made to enjoy the freshness of the early morning breeze and taught to jog and play games before they are given breakfast. They have a study hour and during that time they make the best use of doing their home work and other assignments. They leave their home and parents and after they join here they have no time event to think of their home or anything connected with home even the homely food. They begin the evening after games with a community sarvasdharma (unity of all religions) prayer. After dinner they  have a study period for a couple of hours. They go to bed at a specified time and they chant a Sanskrit verse  the concluding  prayer all together  on their beds and sleep away.

Morning begins and the routine is followed. They leave for school or college whichever is the level of their studies They are guided by their teachers with care and individual attention is paid to every student and their progress is closely supervised. Invariably they do very well and there is no room for anyone to complain. Every action both by teachers and students come out of pure love and there is no trace of disgust in their attitude and work. For them work is worship.

It will be a rare privilege to read in such institutions where the motto is love and nothing else works there. They have their lunch in the afternoon and they eat their lunch beginning with a (two verses from Bhagwatgita)  prayer to the Lord thanking HIM for the food they are privileged to eat and the food becomes sanctified with such prayers. The campuses have doctors to make periodical checks so that students will have no problems of running to hospitals.

Tutorial clauses are conducted so that students are in touch with their studies. Evenings games are compulsory. Students cultivate special taste for games and they choose to specialize in games where their levels of skill match with their tastes.

In such schools results are hundred percent passes with distinction. The reader may receive a rude shock to hear education is free and there is no cash counter here. I headed such an institution thanks to the Lord. I worked for 15 years after working in three universities earlier.

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