GD Goenka Public School in Patel Nagar is known for its commitment toexcellence in education, and this commitment starts right from the pre-nursery level. The program is designed to nurture young minds in a safe, stimulating environment that encourages curiosity and learning.

The researchers told New York magazine that overreliance on direct instruction and repetitive, poorly structured pedagogy were likely culprits; children who’d been subjected to the same insipid tasks year after year after year were understandably losing their enthusiasm for learning.

Much greater portions of the day are now spent on what’s called “seat work” (a term that probably doesn’t need any exposition) and a form of tightly scripted teaching known as direct instruction, formerly used mainly in the older grades, in which a teacher carefully controls the content and pacing of what a child is supposed to learn.