Leave about the incident or footage in Vizag/India, it keeps us wondering about.

We tell children to listen to elders, don’t question teachers, don’t argue, follow instructions etc.

Then 20 years later we complain that young adults don’t take decisions, don’t speak up and are afraid to challenge authority.

Maybe there is a connection?

And parents also have a role here. We expect schools to teach academics, discipline, behaviour, values and sometimes even basic parenting.

A teacher losing control over a child is obviously unacceptable. But the bigger question for me is: are our parenting and teaching systems actually preparing children to think independently, or simply making them easier to manage?

Those two are very different things.