When we talk of a curriculum or a programme, we often speak of what must be covered, what skills must be developed.

The students must have done this, seen that, covered that. If we take history for example, it’s very vast of course, the history of humanity as a whole.

The history of India, the history of ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, the middle ages, the Islamic world, what China is and represents, what Russia is and represents… all of that and much more, has to be explored to some extent. We need an internal understanding of what each civilization represents, that the others are not, what is special and specific – the irreducible specificity of each culture.

The question arises: What is this human adventure? What is this incessant race between the forces of progress, the forces of destruction, of inertia, this never ending construction site. 

History is approached based on Sri Aurobindo’s perspective, to awaken in the students a sense of human adventure, to shed light upon its main issues, and identify its cycles.