Engineer by education, change-maker in Education by heart and vocation

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Engineer by education, change-maker in Education
by heart and vocation
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Say hello to 28-year-old Lewitt Somarajan, the
founder and CEO of LIFE (Learning Is Fun
Experiential) Labs - an organization that is
toiling away to provide education through
inquiry-based teaching and learning practices in
contrast to rote practices prevalent currently in
India.
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Although studying to be an engineer someday, the
realisation point that he was destined for a
different path came quite early for Lewitt while
participating in the Jagriti Yatra - a 15-day
train journey that brought together 400 social
entrepreneurs in 2008. "That's when I recognized
my calling. I wanted to bring change to my
country.While on this journey, he encountered
Teach For India fellows from its very first batch
of 2009-11. "I was in exploratory mode and so
kept in touch with these guys to get an idea of
their experiences in tackling inequity in
education. In 2011, wowed by the work Teach For
India was doing and the impact it was trying to
achieve, I finally applied and got selected as a
part of the third cohort in Pune!The Teach For
India team placed Lewitt in a low income private
school in the outskirts of the city allotting him
to teach grade III and IV. "The classroom was
experiencing its first Teach For India
intervention. Having no expectations to live up
to as the new teacher I could afford the
liberty of working with different approaches.
Being from a middle-class family, even I was
never happy with the kind of education I got so I
could only imagine what these children must be
facing every day at school."
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This novel approach was met with a lot of
motivation and the class performance went up a
notch or too. The guiding force here was not
competition but a collective will to raise the
performance of the class.
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Lewitts parting words are grounded and full of
inspiration, "Be open minded don't be scared to
experiment -- the nation needs your effort. If
not you, then who? Don't be apprehensive about
the timing or the results -- overcome your fear
and be the change maker you know you want to be!"
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