Amrita Vidyalayams, a national network of value based schools are managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math, under the guidance of Amma. The Amrita Vidyalayams were begun with the purpose of serving the specific needs of the student community.Amma attaches great importance to providing education and training to children for the development of each child’s creativity, intelligence and character. She wants the children to have the finest education that helps them in their comprehensive development. Amma says, “Gaining mastery over the mind is the real education.” During these years of moulding, great care is needed, like the care a fence provides for a young sapling.To provide value-based education and mould the character of the younger generation through a system of wholesome learning, so that the earnest endeavour to achieve progress and prosperity in life is matched by an ardent desire to extend selfless service to society, one complementing the other.We envision a world endowed with the wealth of knowledge and the strength of discrimination.We envision a system which is healthy breeding ground for the sprouting, culturing and dissemination of the whole gamut of knowledge in a wholesome and holistic manner for the well-being of the humankind.We envision a human being empowered with wholesome knowledge, which makes one an enabler and facilitator in the deep search and striving of every human being for that knowledge.We envision a system wherein there is a great interplay and exchange of ideas, thoughts, feelings and actions, which develop people empowered with noble character and wholesome values. These virtues help students boldly venture into various fields of action to build a world of love, harmony, peace, mutual respect and knowledge. These values help them follow the path of ‘Dharma’ and give a clear direction in each and every thought and human endeavour.
