Thinkers’ Valley grows from a family belief in the transformative power of education, a belief that began with a question: if this was a beginning, what might education become?
At fifteen, Dr Anoop Singh saw children learning in modest conditions and imagined something more. That question became a lifetime of scholarship, service and school-building.
To see beyond what is, imagine what could be, and have the courage to create it.
Dr Singh's own life was shaped by rigorous study and a belief that knowledge carries responsibility: to understand deeply, to serve others and to share what one has learned.
In 1975, he founded his first school. In 1986, alongside his wife Manjula Singh, he founded St Edmund’s School, Malviya Nagar. Her contribution was fundamental to building a nurturing community in which generations of children felt valued and inspired to flourish.
Dr Singh’s experiences beyond India strengthened his conviction that young people in Jaipur should have access to global knowledge and perspectives without losing their connection to culture, character and place. Thinkers’ Valley grows from that same belief: a strong sense of place and a global outlook can exist together, each making the other stronger.
When Dr Singh first saw the land that would become Thinkers' Valley, there was no road, only open ground. He saw what others saw as fields and imagined a campus. Building it demanded persistence. The twenty-acre campus emerged as more than a collection of buildings; it became a physical expression of heritage, purpose and possibility.
Thinkers’ Valley is the next expression of that belief. The first generation built the foundations, the next carries them forward with respect for what has been built and responsibility for what comes next.
The purpose of education is not to predict the future. It is to prepare young people to meet it.