Learning Centers

In a deeply moving opinion piece, educationist K T Margaret both defines and broadens our understanding of learning centers by bringing the person of the child to the focus of our concerns and by showing how that soft and often derided emotion – love – has to be present in all our interactions with children to create possibilities of learning.

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece highlights how organizations of many different kinds across the country are trying to democratize the space of education through the learning centers that they run.

Samerth started its first learning center in 2017, in one of the most densely populated low-income housing areas of Ahmedabad. This was not our first initiative in education. Before this, we had worked in the area of early education for more than a decade.