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

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

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  1. Engineer by education, change-maker in Education by heart and vocation www.scoonews.com

  2. Say hello to 28-year-old LewittSomarajan, 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.

  3. 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 ‘JagritiYatra’ - 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."

  4. 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.

  5. Lewitt’s 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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