Considering that our education system is largely based on rote learning, how disadvantaged are Indian children compared to kids elsewhere?

I once asked a professor from the University of Pennsylvania the same thing and he told me, `Indian students are great at answering questions but don’t know how to ask the right ones.’ We are trying to prepare children for the 21st century and make them capable of understanding, communicating and questioning. Instead of learning by rote, we want them to have a dialogue with their teachers. Children in other countries are more used to learning by doing things on their own and voicing their opinions.

You’ve called yourself an `elementary school in a box’. Explain We believed that the problem of access was more or less solved. We wanted to work on quality control using the existing infrastructure.We provide teacher training, textbooks, question banks for internal exams, an evaluation system as well as a curriculum. We are one of the largest school book publishers in the country and work within the structures of CBSE, ICSE and state boards. We have prepared lesson plans for teachers to tackle any topic from kindergarten to class 8. Teachers have told us how their students now ask more questions and are more confident and open-minded.

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