Gnana Vahini, This Different School Should Have Been There in My Times

As a child I grew up in a not-so-crowded town, but as to my education (if I can say I'm educated at all) I got it within confinement of four walls of a crowded classroom where the teachers had all rights to tame us with a thick cane that danced on our backs quite often. There was no single instance that I seriously can recall where I have absorbed a concept in the rightful way! That's right! It was all wrong ways ....... and in fact, to be more precise, there was no conceptualisation during my learning days. And, tell you what? I don’t feel ashamed to say that I have mugged up my math book too……I know what expression you guys must be having as you read that!!

Okay....and years rolled by and I became a parent (without ever being taught the right way or the wrong way ...as to how I can become one....lolz)! Great! And, time came for me to hunt for a school for admitting my kid. But, I made up my mind; it should not be the same rot, crowded classrooms where children enter with alarming faces to see their mentors. Thankfully, we didn’t have to hunt for long. We received a flyer in our newspaper and we took time to go to that place the flyer advertized. It’s a different school and probably just the way I believed a school should really be. We spoke to the teachers there (so nice they didn’t like to be called as teachers or mams and they wanted the kids to call them aunts), and let me be honest!They are just an awesome few ladies there.

I thought surely an aunt would come closer to a child’s heart than a teacher/mam right? I appreciated their idea. The idea of this different school is that of an extended family, not crowded absolutely. Some would complain they did not promote their different school well enough, and yeah a school where there are not more than 25 children at a time (the school seems to have very well optimized on the human as well as spatial resources) where they grow up and learn as one community of budding learners. At strength so less as 10-12 per classroom the children be on nodding acquaintance with everyone including their aunt (or mentor).

Mentoring/learning with too many students at any one time becomes impersonal and mechanical. I know I am a product of impersonal and mechanical school. So, I fell in love with this so-called different school at the very first sight and without a second thought secured admission to our kid. After all, I believe one-on-one is the best way to impart education to a budding learner and I am convinced that this different school, Gnana Vahini(literally means carrier of knowledge) is going to do a world of good to the bundle of joy we are proud parents of!