Lotus Travels: India's Most Southern State

Kerala is India’s southern-most state. An important coastline is the Arabian Sea! There are centuries worth of history at every turn.

It’s the most literate populace in all of India. In the humblest of neighborhoods or districts, there are advertisements summoning the pursuit of a university education.

Schools abound in very tightly packed areas, as well as on sprawling campuses. In Government and Public (Private) schools, classrooms have students sitting shoulder to shoulder in numbers as great as fifty (to one teacher). This is the norm.

I didn’t witness a profusion of technology in most of these instutions; they were not lucky enough to have air conditioning, and they don’t have an abundance of fancy supplies. But what they lacked in these areas, these schools made up for ten-fold in student motivation, teacher commitment, parent involvement, and pride in their community and country!