Chapter 9: What I Want You to Do, Teacher
Learn practical ways teachers can support struggling or absent children, protect language dignity, connect lessons to daily life, and encourage civic discussion.
Category: Series
Chapter 8: What Barbiana Actually Did
Learn how Barbiana used mastery learning, peer teaching, collective writing, news, and shared responsibility to support children and form active citizens.
Chapter 7: What the Numbers Continue to Show
Learn how caste, tribe, class, location, and family resources shape dropout rates, learning gaps, school quality, and access to higher education in India.
Chapter 6: Stories from the Fields, the Bastis, and the Hills
Read stories of children facing illness, caste discrimination, language barriers, poverty and migration, and learn how school failures shape dropout and achievement.
Chapter 5: The Exam Factory and the Coaching Industry
Learn how Indian schools and coaching centres turn education into exam preparation, shaping children, families, teachers, and the purpose of learning.
Chapter 4: The Language of Power and the Language of Home
Learn how school language can exclude children, why home languages support learning, and how schools can teach dominant languages without erasing identity.
Chapter 3: Raju and Aryan, Two Boys, One Country
Compare how family life, language, school resources, and tuition shape Raju and Aryan’s education and widen opportunity gaps in India.
Chapter 2: Schools that Cure the Healthy
Learn how schools widen learning gaps when they reward prepared children, and why equal teaching must give extra time and support to those left behind.
Chapter 1: Dear Teacher
Learn why children from working families struggle at school, how language and limited support affect learning, and why schools must refuse to give up.
A Note to the Reader
This note introduces What I Want to Tell My School Teacher, an Indian adaptation of Letter to a Teacher. It explains how the School of Barbiana inspired the ...