I AM THE SKY - A Story of Teaching the Whole Child
I AM THE SKY — A Story of Teaching the Whole Child A small classroom in Bangalore wakes before dawn. A teacher lights a lamp, arranges brightly colored cards, and opens a book whose pages breathe with pictures and poems. Children arrive with curious silence that soon turns into a chorus of questions. This is how the story of I AM THE SKY begins, not as a curriculum, but as an invitation — an invitation to look inward, to play outward, and to learn from the whole of life. How the Idea Was Born Years of teaching, listening, and watching children showed one clear thing: academic success alone does not shape a complete human being. There was a quieter need — for courage, for kindness, for imagination, for a sense that each child matters beyond marks. The idea of I AM THE SKY grew from those evenings of story and reflection, from practice sessions at Atamabodh, and from a stubborn hope that education could be both rigorous and soulful. The book became a gentle manifesto: children...
