About Speaker: Influenced greatly by Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and others, a young and idealistic Dr Jagdish Gandhi ventured out in 1959 to create a new mindset through education. With just five children on rolls, no personal wealth, and the equivalent of ten US dollars in borrowed capital, the motivated Dr Gandhi began his own personal experiment in Lucknow, India, by the name of City Montessori School (CMS). He saw this as a more powerful vehicle to prepare minds to prevent conflicts than working with negotiations and top-down policy efforts alone. Today, at the age of 83, Dr Gandhi has no regrets. He works with the same undiminished zeal towards multiplying his mission for peace through education. In the past 59 years, he has not taken a single day off. He has slept little and has worked through every weekend and holiday. Although the journey has by no means been easy, the citizens of Lucknow have greatly endorsed Dr Gandhi’s mission and values. Their support has made CMS the world’s largest school now with over 55,000 students on its rolls (a Guinness World Record for the largest school in the world since 1999). Dr Jagdish Gandhi believes that children are the world’s future and the best way to mould the future is by nurturing them.  #Swadeshiस्कूल #ProgressiveEducation #UnconventionalMinds