There has always been an unspoken prejudice adults carry about children: how can they be tired? Childhood, we assume, is synonymous with energy. Fatigue, in our understanding, belongs to the body—earned through labour, age, or responsibility—and not to young minds. And yet, what we are witnessing in classrooms today quietly unsettles that belief. When Pauses Disappeared There was a time when a child’s day had a natural rhythm: school, play, homework, rest. There were pauses built into the...

As children, many of us grew up with small rituals that quietly trained our patience. Every Sunday afternoon, we sat down to fill a page of cursive writing. It was rarely voluntary. A parent hovered nearby, ensuring that every r looped neatly and every i carried its proper dot. Until the page was completed to satisfaction, we were not allowed anywhere near the only screen that mattered in the house, the television. We wrote with pencils for years before graduating to ink pens and...

You may try to douse a fire by cutting off its oxygen, but beneath the ashes lie embers, still alive, still capable of igniting a spark. It is this spark that has created revolutionaries, long before the idea of a woman at the forefront of any field was even imagined. This Women’s Day, we look back at trailblazers in education who did not merely resist limitations, but reshaped the very meaning of learning, leadership, and access. Mary McLeod Bethune Education has never been a neutral act....