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I live in a Colony in Delhi \u00a0that is nearby a market with its few shops. It is also near a government school . Students often come to a spot near my colony after their school is over and enjoy their freedom for some time \u2014 maybe an hour or\u00a0so before catching a bus that goes to or near their homes. The buses are not school buses \u2014 just ordinary\u00a0buses that ply on the roads in different directions of the city of Delhi where I live.<\/p>\n

The school is co-educational \u2014 boys and girls study in the same school.\u00a0 The students are required to wear school dress \u2014 blue shirts and white pants for boys; the dress is usually called salwaar – kameez for girl students.<\/p>\n

Since the school is near my home, \u00a0I go and talk to some students who\u00a0come out of their schools after the school is over and enjoy themselves \u2014 their freedom for an hour or so before catching the\u00a0buses that go to or near their homes. The buses are government buses and one has to buy tickets after getting into them . The tickets are generally very cheap and often girls don\u2019t have to pay anything to travel in the various buses.<\/p>\n

Certain schools which are generally expensive in terms of fees charged by them, have their own school buses but I am referring only to ordinary schools who don\u2019t have their own fleet of buses. The latter are government schools which don\u2019t need to charge expensive fees from students. These schools get infrastructural support from the government in various ways, so they need to charge only moderate \u00a0fees from students.<\/p>\n

While waiting for buses to take \u00a0students home, students \u00a0enjoy themselves by talking to each other or sometimes even singing a song or two in their bland voices. There is no fixed menu while waiting.<\/p>\n

I often go near the students and talk to them. I ask them what class they are studying and what subjects they like or find difficult . The students are generally quite frank in admitting that they don\u2019t like certain subjects \u2014 Maths or English etc. Perhaps the teachers teaching these subjects don\u2019t come down to the level that makes their learning interesting.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I try to teach a few topics to students on the road itself. I think that students enjoy themselves when I teach them \u2014 it is a novelty for them.<\/p>\n

I enjoy sharing a topic or two that can be taught without any blackboard \u00a0or any special equipment that is available \u00a0only in a laboratory .<\/p>\n

Teaching some topics to students in this manner, is interesting for them and also for me.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I try to teach a few topics to students on the road itself. I think that students enjoy themselves when I teach them \u2014 it is a novelty for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270338,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270337\/revisions\/270338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}