Why we exist
We're on a mission to end the factory model of education
The school most of us grew up in was designed for a different century. Rows of desks, one teacher, one pace, a bell, a test.
It was built to produce factory workers.
StayQrious exists because the world your child is growing into needs something else entirely: people who can sit with a problem they've never seen before and not flinch.
How we got here
Before it was a school, it was a program.
Long before StayQrious was a school, it was a program. Aanand's masterclasses reached lakhs of students, and tens of thousands went on to learn with us as paying students, long enough to see, clearly, what made a child light up and what dimmed them.
So we built, and rebuilt. We ran masterclasses, after-school programmes, projects and activities for years. When something didn't work, we didn't paper over it, we learnt from it and applied that lesson to the next version, iterating the product, the pedagogy, the projects and the pods, with thousands of real children.
Only once it consistently worked did we turn it into a full school. We opened with just four pods of eight, and have grown slowly and on purpose to 150+ children. Our only real bottleneck has always been finding coaches good enough, never finding families who want this.
Who's behind it
People who'd spent years thinking about how children actually learn
…and were no longer willing to wait for someone else to fix it.
A teacher first
Why students and parents trust him
StayQrious didn't come from a boardroom. It came from a teacher who has spent his whole career in front of children, and earned their trust one lesson at a time.
"I spent years making the best possible lessons. Then I realised the problem wasn't the lessons. It was the model."
The StayQrious team present the curriculum in a unique way, which I would have otherwise struggled with learning.
The classroom atmosphere is too friendly and the coaches are approachable.
Parent and student quotes featured in The Better India. See more on our reviews page.
What we believe
Our Constitution is a small set of convictions
- Success skills matter more than syllabus completion.
- A love of learning outlasts every mark.
- Children are the most important people in the room.
- They learn best by building, failing and trying again.
- They should be talked to, not down to.
We share the Constitution with every family before they join, because we are not looking for customers. We are looking for people who see the world the same way we do.
