What Schools in Sweden teach us and what Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Kanchi MahaSwamigal say on Education and Schools.

1. School system in Sweden
Since English Colonial masters have made us their slaves our
so called education is nothing but theirs…
Lets see what happens in All Swedish GOVT Schools.
Lets know what Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and
Kanchi MahaSwamigal has to say on schools and education.

2. • The medium of instruction is Swedish – mother
tongue as way to arouse students curiosity.
• Classes till 9th only in School. Then they have a 3
years in what they call Gymnasium/students
decide streams based on their interests.
• Then from Gymnasium they go to University
• They have no classes on Saturdays/Sundays.
• No uniform, school gives free buss passes to all
students.
• Lunch/with fruit juice/milk is free which is also
taken by all teachers and principal and school
staffs.

3. • Vegetarians will have special menu
• Every week, different classes will be in charge
to help the dish washing and cleaning
• School provides FREE, everything for learning,
including pencils, erases, books, notebooks or
anything that’s required in class room.
• If there are more than 5 students having a
foreign language as their mother tongue, then
they have a right to ask for one assistant to
help understand subjects in their mother
tongue.

4. • Every classes have got a TV and a DVD player and an
Over Head Projector.
• Students should maintain the books neat and have to
return them, back to school. Books will be handed over
to the next new students who come to the class.
• On the last day they clean any pencil marks in their
books before handing them back to school.
• Once a year towards the closing of school for the year,
all students will be engaged in cleaning the school
premises, like walls, benches, chairs, etc(They use
pencil and no pen).
• Every year there will be a very long walk(few hours) in
winter, remembering their King Gustav Vasa to as how
he escaped an invading army during a winter.

5. • All students will be learning compulsorily major
religions of world.
• TV, DVD players are used to show different festival
or religious practices of different religions in
different countries.
• Teachers can not for any reason beat students and
there are no corporate (mass) punishments.
• No marks and no grades either..
• Learning is made fun only in school level with no
exams and its associated pressures.
• All students learn compulsory music, a hand work,
cooking.

6. What Swami Vivekananda/Mahatma Gandhi and
Kanchi MahaSwamigal says
• My idea of education is personal contact with the teacher-
gurugriha vasa. Without the personal life of a teacher there
would be no education- Swami Vivekananda
• The foreign medium has caused brains fag, put an undue
strain upon the nerves of our children, made them crammers
and imitators, unfitted them for original work and thought,
and disabled them for filtrating their learning to the family or
the masses. The foreign medium has made our children
practically foreigners in their own lands. It is the greatest
tragedy of the existing system.- Mahatma Gandhi
• http://www.gandhi-
manibhavan.org/gandhiphilosophy/philosophy_education_as
pergandhi.htm