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Question
How is school education in the village different from that in the city?
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Solution
The village school is easily accessible on foot. Values and letters of the alphabet are given utmost importance. Children carried wooden slates and ink-pot. There was no subject specialization in the village school. One teacher taught all. The city school has huge buildings. Subject-wise teachers are there. School is remote. Children have to travel a long distances to reach school.
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