Schools are Changing
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Inspired by Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics,
wheels spinning stories across threshold stones.
Breakfast arrives with sunrise and hope,
satellites whisper knowledge to mountaintops,
libraries gallop on horseback to forgotten villages.
Schools are changing.
Democracy breathes in corridors
where small hands architect tomorrow
Children crown themselves questioners of kings,
draft constitutions in crayon and conviction,
settle wars with words instead of fists.
Youth senates convene beneath banyan trees,
peer wisdom flows like monsoon rivers,
every voice a vote for their own becoming.
Schools are changing.
Teachers kneel in gardens of minds,
neurons mapped like constellations,
each lesson a love letter to possibility.
History students drill wells of justice,
science spills into symphonies,
mathematics dances with poetry
Questions bloom wild as jasmine,
curiosity the only curriculum.
Schools are changing.
Silicon tutors hum lullabies of learning,
reality bends to touch Mars-dust,
Mumbai hearts beat synchronised with Michigan souls.
Screens glow like prayer lamps in darkness,
bridging canyons with cables of light,
technology bowing to humanity's altar.
Schools are changing.
Healers walk halls like monsoon clouds,
breathing calm into storm-tossed minds,
emotions named and tamed like temple elephants.
Gardens feed both hunger and wonder,
music mends what words cannot touch,
souls receive education alongside minds.
Schools are changing.
Master-teachers earn reverence and rupees,
autonomy their sacred birthright,
collaboration their temple practice.
Research nests like sparrows in every classroom,
wisdom circles replace isolation islands,
brilliance drawn to brilliance like stars to sky.
Schools are changing.
Portfolios unfold like treasure maps,
exhibitions bloom as festivals of mastery,
failure transformed to stepping stones.
Growth mindset flows like sacred Ganges,
self-reflection deep as meditation,
progress pilgrimage to potential.
Schools are changing.
Grandfather stories weave through equations,
students architect solutions for bleeding neighbourhoods,
mentors multiply like mustard seeds.
Work and wonder wed in workshops,
community wounds heal through children's hands,
school walls dissolve like morning mist.
Schools are changing.
Languages dance in polyglot playgrounds,
virtual hands reach across ocean dreams,
peace circles spin like prayer wheels.
Climate warriors train in kindergarten battalions,
festivals paint calendars with rainbow cultures,
global hearts beat local rhythms.
Schools are changing.
Innovation labs birth butterfly companies,
creativity volcanic in young minds,
future skills unfurl like lotus petals.
Literacy nestles beside ancient wisdom,
partnerships bloom in university gardens,
tomorrow's dreams wear today's uniforms.
Schools are changing.
Sun-crowned buildings breathe with earth,
gardens exhale organic sustenance,
rain harvested like liquid silver.
Waste becomes wonder in circular temples,
green consciousness grows like sacred groves,
sustainability sacred as prayer.
Schools are changing.
Data flows like digital bloodstreams,
feedback loops sing improvement mantras,
innovation laboratories birth miracles.
Global conferences plant idea seeds,
evidence navigates policy waters,
evolution eternal as cosmic dance.
Schools are changing.
From shackled silence to liberated song,
from isolated islands to connected continents,
from factory bells to freedom's symphony,
from yesterday's chains to tomorrow's wings
Hope rewrites itself in children's laughter,
future flowering in young hands like lotuses from mud,
dreams democratised, potential unleashed,
humanity learning to be human.
Schools are changing.
Copyright © Dr. Padmashree R P | Year Posted 2025
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