How it is taught

1

Read in the original, from the first year

The sources themselves, not a summary of them. Every level reads from a real text, in Saṃskṛtam, with the acharya: a verse at a time, as much as the child can take, and more each year.

• Level 1Subhāṣitas, sung and acted before they are read
• Level 2[TEXT: e.g. the Pañcatantra], read aloud and retold at home
• Level 3[TEXT: e.g. the Līlāvatī], a riddle solved, then checked against Bhāskara
• Level 4[TEXT: e.g. the Āryabhaṭīya], worked through: a sine table rebuilt

Why: wider, deeper, older. A child who has read Āryabhaṭa knows that India did not borrow its mathematics.

2

Every subject has a face

Indian Knowledge is not anonymous. Each subject carries the name of the ṛṣi or siddha who first saw it, and the first class of that subject begins with them, not with a chapter number. The acharya stands in their line; the child joins it.

Why: knowledge with a lineage is knowledge with a reason. The child learns who found it, and what for.

Meet the twelve

3

Done, not watched

Bhāratīya Vijñāna is done at the kitchen table and in the garden with the book kit's experiments, and on the screen in virtual labs for what a home cannot hold: a planet's orbit, a cell, a circuit too costly to burn. The acharya watches both.

Why: observation is one of the five ways of learning. Earth is the textbook; the kitchen is the first lab.

See what a lab looks like

4

The picture builds all year

No examination days until the 10th. Every assignment is marked by the acharya by kind of thinking and with a comment, and the marks fill the five sheaths a little at a time. A parent watches it happen on their own screen.

Good. You found the one bee's share before counting the swarm, which is exactly how Bhāskara does it.

Why: we assess the knower, not just the answer. A child is never reduced to one afternoon in an examination hall.

See the Pañcakośa report