Sri Aurobindo and the Mother gave the body a real place in education and equal ground to girls. They still kept it below the mind, and that is where this series parts ways with them.
Vivekananda’s line about a perfection already within hangs in countless school corridors. He took the body seriously, but kept it a servant, and our schools followed.
A school can keep its playground on every register and still take it from children, one borrowed games period at a time. Why the ground matters for what a child is, not only for attention and marks.
We tend to think children see first and move later. Research on kittens, crawling babies and go-carts says the order runs the other way.