Self-directed learning community offers help with home-schooling

 It is a complete programme based on self-directed learning. Co-founded by Srikanth Chandrasekaran and Sharanya Dilip, Quest is uniquely positioned not only to address current dilemmas about homeschooling during the pandemic but to also assist and inspire families who seek to move away from conventional teaching methodologies altogether. “Self-directed education has never been more relevant than at present when change is happening at the speed of thought. The Unschooling Project offers an inclusive and expansive environment that can provide self-directed education to every child, where priority is given for continuums over curriculum, interest areas over subjects, schedules over timetables, goals over exams, sessions over classes, and customisation over standardisation,” says Srikanth Chandrasekaran.

The Unschooling Project is a holistic replacement to standardised curriculums. It combines self-directed learning with socialisation options at the centre’s physical spaces, which are designed to remake the idea of what a classroom can be. Co-founder Sharanya Dilip pitches in, “No child is incompetent. With a nurturing environment and time to discover, explore and practice what they enjoy doing, we can raise empowered individuals. At Quest, we consciously practice the habit of not exercising force or control to make children do anything. Instead, we seek consent to assist them with our thoughts and ideas. More often than not, they are way more advanced in their thinking than we give them credit for.”