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Hariharananda Mission
Future
plans
Educational philosophy
Teachers' guidelines
School
curriculum
Children's
coaching center
curriculum
Girls'
vocational center
curriculum |
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In
each adopted village, our specially trained local instructors provide
two hours daily of physical, moral, intellectual and spiritual education
to the village children (age 5-12), using the following curriculum:
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Rules of personal hygiene
- Personal moral observances (yamas)
- Social moral observances (niyamas)
- Prayers and om chanting
- Singing devotional songs (kirtan)
- Performing a simple, non-sectarian religious
worship (puja)
- Yoga postures (asanas)
- Breathing exercises (pranayama)
- Concentration exercises (dharana)
- Simple meditation technique (dhyana)
- Sanskrit language
- English language
- Good handwriting skills
- Good reading skills
- Good oral presentation skills
- Debating tournaments
- Group reading of the Bhagavad Gita,
Mahabharata, Ramayana, Holy Bible, Dhammapada and Qu'ran
- Sanskrit-only Day
- English-only Day
- Play acting of religious stories and epics
from various religions
- Village theater to dramatize the social
ills of the community (i.e. the dowry system, caste discrimination,
alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, domestic violence, laziness,
unhygienic lifestyle, greed, etc.)
- Service to the poor, the sick, orphans,
widows, and the handicapped of their own community
- How to help and educate one's own parents
to live a life free from alcohol, smoking and intoxicants |
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