Learning from first generation school-goers
visit sugarybloom.blogspot.com Chapter- 6 Learning From First Generation School-Goers Dr.R. Balasubramaniam Summary The lesson "Learning from first generation school-goers" by Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, the author explains the knowledge and values he got from the tribal students he was teaching.The school had its beginnings in a makeshift arrangement in a cowshed in a hamlet named Brahmagiri. The responsibilities for preparing the mid-day meals was shared among children and adults alike.A few of them would decide the menu , a few collects the fire-wood ,few would cut the vegetables and few moulds cooked ragi flour into small balls and others serve their friends and a couple of them had to clean up. T he usual menu for mid-day meals was ragi balls(finger millet) and sambar. One day it was Manju's turn to prepare food and Manju had his kid sister Sunanda with him that day.T he narrator expected Manju to roll an extra ragi ball for her. ...