About India Festival of Children & Youth Empowerment in , New Delhi

The founders of India Festival of Children & Youth Empowerment believe that the discourse on education must shift from the narrow spectrum of marks and jobs to a broader vision of spiritual-awakening, social awareness and creative consciousness. With that objective in mind, India Festival of Children and Youth Empowerment – Creativity, Ideation, Empowerment and Innovation was spawned into existence.

In its present form, our education system is disproportionately focused on preparing children for the rat race with much less emphasis on developing character-building values like kindness, empathy, compassion, creativity and respect. It is tailored to raise children for standardized competition and material success instead of encouraging ideation, creativity and self awareness. It is skewed towards facts-ingestion and rote learning instead of nurturing critical thinking. Children are indoctrinated into thinking competitively from an early age which results in the perpetuation of traits like selfishness and a "win at all costs" attitude. This winner-takes-all narrative dominates our approach to education. Children are made to believe from an early age that the only measure of their worth is the ability to score highly in standardized exams and landing a plush job at the end of their formal education. In this race towards material well-being and upward mobility, children are robbed of their childhood and straitjacketed into a competitive learning environment completely devoid of fun or critical inquiry. However, the purpose of India Festival of Children & Youth is not to jettison the prevailing discourse but to present an alternate vision.

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