The Resisting Voice

As living beings, we all want to be treated as special and be showered upon love, like loads of love. Love can sprout in the form of seeds: seeds of sensitivity, seeds of respect and finally as plants and trees of intense love and care, with branches reaching upwards towards the sky. During my first orientation for the fellowship I am currently part of, a hall filled with 200 fresh graduates and post- graduates, we were asked by a very senior person, " what do you think is the basic need of a child, and what is it that we as institutions of education and learning, not providing them with?".  In response to this question, I answered that we need to make the child feel loved, to give him/her/other gender identities, the space to express feelings, thoughts, emotions and made to feel special.  As a child, I constantly needed attention (to the least), care,respect (while being punished physically for my mistakes) and the feeling of  love and appreciation from my teach...