We face a global learning crisis.
Let me tell you a story from my experiences in the last six years in India.
One morning of July, us and Kavitha are surrounded by a smokey mountain of garbage.
With bare hands, Kavitha scours the garbage in search for any piece that might sell of metal or plastic. I stare at her hands. She understands and replies in Telugu with bits of English: 鈥淚 do this for years. I came even when I was pregnant.鈥� I shiver. 鈥淲hy is she doing this?鈥�. Kavitha smiles: 鈥淢y two daughters won鈥檛 have this life."
What did she teach me here? Kavitha, a rag picker mother, taught me that poor parents will do anything in their capacity for their children.
However, 4 in 10 chil...
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