In an interview with IB World Magazine, Monique Seefried, President of the IBO Countil of Foundation, cites Mahatma Gandhi International School as a highly noteworthy school amongst all IB schools worldwide. She discusses the school at length in the September 2006 issue of IB World Magazine.

As the word “developed” implies, such countries can sometimes be rigid and infertile in terms of accepting new ideas in education. Granted, the conventional education system in India has its shares of challenges. It is bogged down by overpopulation, and also it is molded on the British colonial system that was more interested in producing good laborers than empowered individuals. Howerver, alongside this quantitative system, some very innovative and comprehensive qualitative projects have flourished, sometimes in the form of village schools, sometimes in the form of experimental schools. Often, these schools are able to explore new avenues because of the less constraining educational structures in place, or because of their ability to boycott a given education board on the basis that a school is better than no school.

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