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We tell our children to stand out. To be the “star performer.” Perfect grades. Perfect choices. Perfect futures.

But somewhere in that pursuit of raising the exclusive, we forgot how to raise the inclusive.

Today’s teens grew up through lockdowns, isolation, uncertainty, and constant comparison. Classrooms became screens. Friends became thumbnails. And just when the world reopened, we demanded answers:

“What’s the plan?”
“Which college?”
“What will you become?”

Fear of failure now sits quietly in every .

But children cannot grow where they are afraid to fail. Learning under judgment is not learning — it’s performance.

I see this during our sessions in . The moment children are given a safe space to express, the masks drop. They don’t talk about marks. They talk about fear. Fear of disappointing parents. Fear of not being “the best.”

And yet, in those quiet moments of listening and breathing together, something beautiful happens:
They realise they are not alone.

The “topper” and the struggling student sit together — not as competitors, but as human beings.

That is the environment we need to rebuild.

Because children grow best not in pressure, but in trust.
Where failure is feedback, not a verdict.
And where being human matters more than being exclusive.

We tell our children to stand out. To be the best.."star performer". The one with perfect grades, perfect decisions, perfect futures. We call it “raising them right.” But what we’re really doing is raising the and in that pursuit, we’ve forgotten how to raise the .

The hard truth: when you raise a child to be exclusive, the learning is never non-judgmental. It can’t be. Because “exclusive” means comparison. It means a scoreboard.
𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀. 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀. 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘂𝗺 — 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗳𝗳-𝘀𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆. 𝗔𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁. 𝗝𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵, 𝘄𝗲 — 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀, 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 — 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆. “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲?” “𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲?”“𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻?”

Failure has no chair at this table. Fear of judgment sits in every corner of their . And here’s what we miss: you cannot grow where you’re afraid to fail. Learning that happens under the shadow of “what will they think?” is not learning. It’s . It’s a high-pressure chamber where a child has to deliver tomorrow’s precision, today. The pressure to be on top. The pressure to choose right. The pressure to stay exclusive.

I see it every week when we run sessions in schools. The moment we say “express,” the masks drop. Children speak not about algebra, but about fea

I often wonder when we decided that a child’s mind was a vessel for data rather than a garden for the soul... We have drifted into a peculiar, somewhat clinical way of looking at , treating it as a "foundational course for life." 𝙊𝙪𝙧 #𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙮, 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣𝙭𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙤𝙛 #𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢.

It is a quiet tragedy !! At time we see teachers nudged into a "manager" mindset, ticking off targets and comparing "100/100" scores as if they were quarterly profit margins. 𝙒𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙, "𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡" 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙮, "𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙" 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚.

Subconsciously, we lean toward the "star performers," forgetting that a high IQ is a fragile, lonely thing without a healthy EQ to guide it.

It pains me deeply to see learning without laughter, or a child afraid to admit, "I do not understand." Real learning requires the freedom to be unsure.

This is why we started Indradhanush. My team and I travel to the breathtaking mountains of Uttarakhand every month to meet young teachers in DIET colleges. For five days, we set aside the spreadsheets and dive into pedagogies and Mindfulness practices. We want these young educators to fall in love with learning themselves, to feel the rhythm of a child-centric classroom before they ever stand at the front of one.