There is a new school being built near Chennai, India, with a unique but obvious goal: to teach children to be happy. You won’t find standardized tests here, but you will find a tree-filled meditation room, an ideation lab, and a test kitchen.
“We want to cultivate happy kids, compassionate people, people that are going to go out into the world and do something good.” [Image: Kurani]
“It’s our view that happiness–or emotional intelligence, or balance, or confidence, or self-esteem, or any other word for feeling good about ourselves and our place in the world–is the foundation on which great lives and great achievements are built,” says Riverbend School cofounder Vivek Reddy.
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