Where did you have your school life?

I began my education at my mother's knee. She was a trained teacher and set up her own school in the village, initially to educate her own children and then to include children of other people in the area. Our local village 'public' school was somewhat basic in its standards and my mother's standards were definitely higher! When I was about 8 I went to a day school in the town about 5 miles away. I hated this school: it smelt of stale sweat, sour milk, chalk dust and ink and the staff though, on the whole, kind felt they had a mould to cram us into and if we didn't fit, then we had to be made to. My next school was a boys only boarding school with the same brutal ethos. Education was what we were there for; food and lodging were just barely adequate ('healthiness' was mainly considered to be the ability to withstand cold on the cheapest diet the school could provide and still meet the standards of the Inspectors!) Education wasn't something to be enjoyed - it was a necessary adjunct to the ideal of excelling in (or at least enjoying) sports. It was basically boot camp for pre-teens. I considered running away several times but didn't have enough for a railway ticket even if I had got to the nearest station. Mostly, I just learnt the art of keeping my head just off the grindstone. My last school (from 15 to 18 years old) was so different from the other two that I almost thought I was in heaven. The same smell of stale sweat, bare boards, cooked cabbage and chalk but with the added excitement of female fellow pupils. Never mind that they were dressed in shiny green serge skirts and tired green woolen jumpers and blazers, much as us boys were. We all smelt of school but the girls had a different (and thus exciting) smell that 200 boys cannot manage on their own. At this age, of course, I was becoming interested in girls and to be thrown into a school with them, having not grown up in that kind of society, was so exhilarating and confusing that education again became a secondary aim. I did finally catch up with myself when I was in my late 40s and graduated from my Computer Studies course when I was 50, thus changing the course of my life completely!

well, i started my schooling in delhi, then we shifted to Lucknow. there i went to city montessori school (famous as CMS) and later went to a convent, St. Mary's high school. school days are always good and they leave some memorable days for life.

I had my school life in Guru Govind Singh Higher Secondary School, Patna, Bihar. I studied there from 4th to 11th standrad there. I have never heard from my school friends. I miss all of them a lot and I don't know where they are and how to contact them.

hey well i had my schooling from dldav model school delhi. i was thr from the very starting till the end . i really njoyed my school life it was full of adventure. i think it was the best part of my life and i can never forget that .