Mirambika - Free Progress School

Mirambika - Free Progress School
Research centre for Integral Education and Human Values
Location
New Delhi, New Delhi India
Information
Type	Private school
Established	1981
Gender	Co-educational
Affiliation	National Institute of Open Schooling
Website	www.mirambika.org/

Mirambika - Free Progress School, is based on the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It is situated at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram campus in New Delhi.Learning at Mirambika is based on the view that each individual comes into life with an evolutionary purpose and corresponding potentialities: educating means drawing out this potential. The school is not affiliated to any board and the children take up the National Institute of Open Schooling.

In 1981, Mirambika (Mira, from the name Mira Alfasa of the `Mother,' the disciple of Sri Aurobindo, and Ambika meaning "mother" in Sanskrit) was conceived, in an attempt to implement the educational agenda of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It started with 57 children and today, after two decades it has managed to hold the number at under 150.