“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think!”
- Winnie the Pooh
I have
worked with The Potter’s Earth for the past two years. Through this time, I’ve
interacted with thousands of students, parents, teachers and schools. No two
students are alike, just the way no two teachers or schools are. But last week,
I had the opportunity to meet a unique school with a unique mission and students
like no other.
Krishna, an eight year old
boy, loves cake. He loves school too and his favourite subjects are computers,
art and craft and story-telling. He speaks 3 languages (English, Hindi and
Marathi) and loves playing cricket with his friends. His parents work in a
factory and he loves that he lives in boarding school. When he sat across the
table from me, eating cake, he had this brilliant smile across his face as he
spoke of his friends and admitted to bunking class sometimes to walk in the
garden behind the school. He wants to grow up and work in the Armed Forces. Krishna
is also blind.
