The most amazing classroom I've ever entered is in the Govt Inter College (GIC) in Dudhli village, near Dehradun. It's a mathematics lab, and the #teacher who envisioned this is Jagdamba Prasad Dobhal. People in Dudhli choose GIC over private schools. It's not hard to think why. 
The first time I entered this lab, I saw students with spherical stones. Mr Dobhal had taught them about the 'sphere' and had asked them to fetch stones of that shape from the nearby jungle. In the stones, the 2D circle had suddenly jumped out of the paper and had come alive.
While I spoke to Mr Dobhal, the students suddenly started playing. Few played chess, few others played ludo. "What just happened," I asked Mr Dobhal. He said the rules of the classroom were that when he was busy, the students must play games instead of wasting time chatting.
A board in the lab read, 'बड़े बाँध: गलत वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण ' (big dams: wrong scientific view), and there were others on landslides, forest fires, etc. I felt like I had entered a dream. That lab was what school education should look like.
To this day, I remain overwhelmed with that one mathematics lab. It showed everything a teacher was capable of.
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