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Such an education stretches the definition of what is possible to accomplish with human potential during the process of educating. Despite growing social degradation, the experiment at CMS has shown that schools can create a new reality. In this tunnel of learning, the school, in which a child spends 14 years of life, a Broader, Bolder education emphasizes both process and outcome. Along with creative methods that address all aspects of a child's development, this tunnel of learning is transformed into a tunnel of enlightenment. A child emerges as enlightened citizen of his community and the world. S/he is confident, articulate, positive, enthusiastic, open-minded and above all else has the wisdom to know right from wrong. The results are visible. As some studies and observations have shown, children coming out from the portals of CMS are significantly more conscious of their true station, more spiritual, endowed with values and virtues, have a sense of mission, and also aim for excellence in all they undertake. Observers have noted that CMS is like an oasis in the desert that stands out. One evidence is the endorsement of parents, who by choosing CMS as their choice of school, have made it the largest school in the world with its entry into the Guinness World Records each year since 1999. Such an outcome underscores the need for spiritual and human education in addition to material. In fact, because of a Broader, Bolder education that puts more weightage on spiritual and human education, children's context is widened and they do better in their academics also. Such an outcome supports the hypotheses that when children are provided a broader framework for their lives, education becomes more meaningful for them. Children progress more in their academic work when compared to an education that is focused on academics. CMS is testimony to the fact that even a large school community that mimics a public school, drawing as it does children from all strata of society, can produce consistently the best results year after year. By combining spiritual education with academic preparation, CMS has shown it is possible to engage the highest in a child, to motivate him from within and beyond that, to make life more meaningful for him. In such an education, reaching for excellence becomes a value in itself. Students show an internal desire to excel and to stretch the
boundaries of their human and spiritual potential. Students aspire to perfection both within and without. They increasingly become what we refer to as TQPs Total Quality Persons, that is, persons who are balanced in all aspects of life, inner and outer. It is no wonder, therefore, that CMS students have won countless awards in every subject, and have excelled in music, arts and the sciences, at the same time as they have become conscious and compassionate individuals. CMS literature on spiritual education has been translated and used in several countries including Macau, China, Russia, Zimbabwe and others. A recent enquiry was made by the Zambian Ambassador to the US on how she could set up a nonprofit educational society in her country based on the CMS principles. In South Africa, a Member of Parliament has taken the Excellence in Character Series and implemented it in many schools over the last two years. People worldwide are attracted to this model of education.
Parel Survey
In an open-ended survey, referred to as the Parel Survey, Matthew J Parel, former Principal and Head of several Army Public Schools in India interviewed 14 and 15 year olds at two well-known schools, one of which was CMS. He posed three questions, of which the qualitative answers to two of them are enumerated below. Data was quantified based on qualitative survey. As the Parel Survey demonstrates, such a focus has created a demonstration value and raised expectation from education. Broader, Bolder education at CMS has given direction and meaning to its student body. It has motivated, for example, more of them to dedicate their efforts to the betterment of society, not just for personal material gain.
There are a number of new terms, concepts, methods and innovations that are part of this unique experiment with education. They include the reorganisation of educational structure and instructional content to facilitate the highest possible emphasis on spiritual aspects.
FM Radio
Radio can be another powerful means to communicate a schools' vision. For this purpose CMS runs two FM Radio Stations (90.4 MHz) from two locations of Lucknow.