About
Dr Jagdish Gandhi
A visionary and a far-sighted person, Jagdish Gandhi has
been building bridges of peace across the globe for nearly
50 years. For his long-standing contributions to education
in peace, the United Nations awarded the prestigious UNESCO
Prize for Peace Education in the year 2002 to his unique
creation - the City Montessori School, popularly known as
CMS, which Gandhi founded in 1959 and has been serving as
its Founder-Manager. Among the previous recipients of this
prize are Nobel Peace Prize laureates – Mother Teresa of
Calcutta and Rigoberto Menchu Tum of Guatemala as well as
groups such as the Stockholm International Peace Research
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IF ONE
CHILD CHANGES
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WILL UNITE
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New concepts of education Dr Jagdish Gandhi has given to the world
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 The
philosophy of 'Jai Jagat' (Victory be to the world)
School
as the ‘Lighthouse of Society’
All
Religion Prayer and World Unity Prayer
Students'
Quality Control Circles
Home
Visit Scheme and Model Class Presentations
FM
Radio Stations and Film Division
Call
for Enforceable International Law and empowerment of
International Court of Justice
International
Conferences of Chief Justices of the World
Guardian
of world's two billion children
Aao
Dosti Karein
Children's
World Parliament
World
Citizen Dress
World
Unity Satsang (World Unity Congregation)
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The
philosophy of
'Jai Jagat' (Victory be to the world) |
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 Under Dr Gandhi's inspiration and guidance, his school has
adopted Saint Vinoba Bhave’s philosophy of
‘Jai Jagat’
(Victory be to the world). Therefore, CMS education revolves
around the twin poles of Godliness and globalism. While daily
prayer-assemblies ensure that children are spiritually
nourished, globalism is inculcated in them through activities
such as Children's International Summer Village (CISV) camps,
International School to School Experience (ISSE) exchanges and
various other international events that CMS organizes every year
to provide an opportunity to children from different cultures
and nationalities of the world to come together and experience
global exposer and cross-cultural interaction.
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School as the ‘Lighthouse of Society’ |
 While the philosophy of
'Jai Jagat'
is the guiding principle behind all school activities at
CMS, Dr Gandhi believes that the school must act as a
Lighthouse of Society, providing meaningful education,
spiritual direction, guidance and leadership to
students, parents and the society in general. He feels
that school must also concern itself with the affairs of
the age which are plaguing the world today. He believes
that the purpose of today's education should be the
redemption of humankind from disunity and to bring unity
of hearts which requires purity of hearts and purity of
motives.
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3.
All
Religion Prayer and World Unity Prayer |
Dr Gandhi was the pioneer in organizing all
religion-prayers before the commencement of all school events.
On these occasions, students attired in traditional costumes
render their respective religions' prayers sequentially on one
stage. Particular care is taken to teach children to respect all
religions by educating them that the basic teachings of all
religions are the same. A unique feature of CMS is to organize
(i) All Religion Prayers (ii) World Unity Prayer Ceremony and
(iii) Children’s World Parliament, before the commencement of
all school events.
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Students' Quality Control Circles
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Dr Gandhi invented and pioneered the introduction of
Student's Quality Control Circles (SQCC's) in education, an idea
which he learnt from Kaizen Philosophy and Total Quality
Management (T.Q.M.) concept of Industries during his visit to
Japan. His School became the first school of the world to start
SQCC's with the object of implanting quality awareness in
children at a young age (Catch them Young for Quality) and to
inculcate in them a strong desire for world unity. He aspires to
develop the children as Total Quality Person (TQP) by providing
them from early childhood with a balanced education of all the
three realities of life i.e. material, human and divine inherent
in a human being. Today SQCC's have been spread in more than 30
countries all over the world. Dr Gandhi believes that concept of
Total Quality Management (T.Q.M.) will succeed only if the
person at the helms of its affairs is a Total Quality Person
(T.Q.P.). Therefore he is popularizing the Concept of Total
Quality Person(T.Q.P.) all over the world through school
education with the mission of catching the children at young age
for Quality of life.
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Home Visit Scheme and Model Class
Presentations |
 Dr Gandhi pioneered the concept of Teacher-Guardians
in CMS who visit the homes of their students to interact with
parents in the presence of the child, to discuss the strengths
and weaknesses of the child and advise the family on how to
bring out the best in the student. The teacher-guardian also
educates parents about the CMS philosophy of ‘Jai Jagat’ and its
emphasis on world unity so that there is no conflict between the
ideals the child is taught at school and at home. Dr Gandhi also
introduced the concept of ‘Model Class Presentations’ for
students of every class from Pre-primary to High Secondary
level. At these classes children present various items such as
speech, drama, discussion, debate, quiz, song, etc. based on the
philosophy of Jai Jagat (Victory be to the world) so that the
children not only learn to overcome stage-fright and
become confident & eloquent public speakers and develop
leadership qualities but also cultivate a commitment to
world unity.
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FM
Radio Stations and Film Division |
   Under Dr Gandhi's inspiration and leadership, CMS became the
first school in the world to establish two educational FM Radio
Stations (90.4 MHz) and its own Films Division with a staff of
over 50 technical experts, producing educational programmes that
also promote the school philosophy of World Unity. Dr Gandhi's
school is the first school which is producing educational films
and organizing Children's Film Festivals where educational and
value-oriented films based on Godliness & Globalism are shown
free of cost to children, parents, teachers and the general
public, to popularise the concept of world unity. |
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Call for Enforceable International Law and
empowerment of International Court of Justice |
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Drawing
inspiration from Victor Hugo who said "There is one
thing stronger than all the armies of the world and that
is 'An Idea' whose time has come" Dr Gandhi came up
with the thought that “Enforceable International Law and
Empowering the International Court of Justice is 'The
Idea' whose time has come" in order to safeguard the
future of the world's two billion children and
generations yet-to-be-born. He upholds that empowering
the International Court of Justice is imperative to
decide disputes legally and for interpretation of
international law. This will obviate the need for
conflict because international disputes would be
resolved peacefully and legally by the impartial court,
and large resources spent on defense and
defense-preparedness can be conserved for the welfare of
humanity. In the present situation this can be done by
empowering the International Court of Justice and by
strengthening the United Nations system & removing 5
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 Dr Gandhi pioneered the idea of organizing Annual
International Conferences of Chief Justices of the World and
World Judiciary Summits for promoting the philosophy of
Enforceable International Law and empowering the International
Court of Justice in order to safeguard the future of world's two
billion children and generations yet to be born. These
conferences have been attended by Chief Justices, Judges, Law
Ministers and legal luminaries of over 100 countries during the
last seven years. Greater global awareness and a tremendous
response from all over the world has infused high hopes from
this CMS campaign.
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Guardian of world's two billion children
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Dr Gandhi, the founder of CMS, Guinness World record holder
the largest city school in the world, has assumed himself as a
self-appointed guardian of the rights and welfare of world's two
billion children and of generations yet-to-be-born, therefore Dr Gandhi has been striving relentlessly to persuade the world's
political leaders and heads of national judiciaries to take up
the children's cause and to ensure that their right to inherit a
safe and healthy future is protected.
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10. "Aao
Dosti Karein" (ADK) (Come, let us be friends!)
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 Dr Gandhi conceived and implemented the idea of
Indo-Pak Children's Friendship Club. Named "Aao Dosti Karein"
(come, let us be friends), the ADK Club facilitated letter
exchanges between thousands of CMS students with their Pakistani
counterparts and later led to exchange of visits between CMS
students and students from many Pakistani schools over the last
five years. The objective of ADK Club is to promote and infuse
in their hearts and minds the idea of unity & peace between
India and Pakistan and implant the idea of world unity and world
peace in the children of both the countries.
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 Dr Gandhi conceived the idea of 'Children's World
Parliament' where children playact as world leaders and discuss
global problems and solutions preparing them right from
childhood to be responsible world's statesmen. The idea is to
let the children imagine themselves as the citizens of the
world, addressing humanity as one family.
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 Dr Gandhi popularized the concept of 'World Citizen's
Dress' which was first developed by Professor Mangesh Teli of
Bombay University. Embossed on the World Citizen's Dress are the
symbols of all major religions and the national flags of all
countries. The dress is the central focus of the spectacular
World Peace Prayer Ceremony that is an integral part of every
CMS event. The entire presentation aims to inspire young
children to view themselves as World Citizens responsible for
the welfare for all beings in the world.
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World Unity
Satsang
(World Unity
Congregation)
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 Every Sunday, Dr Gandhi addresses world unity prayer
meetings which are telecast regularly on international and
national television channels such as Aastha, Sanskar & Sadhna.
The deep impact of these programs on the viewers is reflected in
the hundreds of letters received from all over India and abroad
lavishly praising the concept of World Unity and the content of
the program and reveal how receptive people are to the appeals
for unity of God, unity of religions and unity of humankind. |
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