Eklavya School has developed a fresh perspective on education to enhance the value and quality of education. It believes in:

• Mixed Group Learning: A mixed group usually represents reality better and thus prepares children better.

• Smaller Class Sizes: Individualized attention is probably one of the most important implications of a small class-size. The strengths and weaknesses of a child can be discovered by the educators here.

• Educators, not Teachers: The Ideal Educator is a professional, who is like a gardener who tends plants. The educator's job is to educate the child and make her a better human being.

• Subject Rooms: The rooms are created in such a way that an ambience for the subject is created. Students move from class to class, NOT the teachers!

• Continuous Evaluation: This is a process to help evaluate the child’s development better by continuous day-to-day monitoring and feedback.

• All-round development: The activities designed not only effect the intellectual formation of the student but also influence the student physically, spiritually and psychologically. This will help the student develop into a balanced personality capable of becoming a productive, effective and sensitive member of the community.

• Enjoyable learning experiences: Diverse activities, puzzles, field visits, worksheets, projects etc makes learning a much more enjoyable and enriching process.

• Learning beyond classrooms: learning becomes much more effective and relevant through hands-on experiences, dramatizing concepts learnt, applying the learning’s in real life experiences.

• ‘My Time’: The students after reaching a certain age need time to do reflective thinking in order to bring about an effective change. Students get enough time to reflect on their day to day activities through my time period.

• Parent-School partnership: Parents are an integral part of the school community. The school learns through their wisdom and experience by maintaining close ties with them, having regular ‘Home visits’, and by interactions where the parents spend time with students talking about any issue of interest to them and the students. The school also educates parents by conducting special workshops and programmes.

• School-Part of larger community: The school itself is a part of the community. It draws upon the resources of the community and plays a contributory role. Children go on projects to clean streets or a public place, read to blind, spend time at old-age homes, etc.