Classrooms stall without teachers; invest in them

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” John Dewey’s warning, uttered in another age, acquires an uncanny urgency in India today. For all our talk of digital devices, new syllabi, and the promise of Artificial Intelligence, the truth remains stubbornly simple: it is the teacher who holds the fulcrum of learning in her hands. And yet, the very figure upon whom our collective future rests is the one we have chosen to neglect the most.