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Hunger to Learn
At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village.
The story of this young man from Murshidabad in West Bengal is a remarkable tale of the desire to learn amid the direst poverty.
I just caught this on BBC News whilst eating my breakfast and I broke down in tears. It makes me so angry that my students don’t realise how lucky they are.
