On a hot summer afternoon, the air-conditioned Std III classroom at Pathways School, Noida, is abuzz with 7-8-year-olds in heated discussion. “What’s the difference between art and craft? Is art a part of craft? Is craft art?” the teacher asks. Enthusiastic hands shoot up, faces shine with eagerness. The idea is to encourage the kids to get comfortable with questions as much as answers. So that the classroom isn’t the site of inert encounters with rock-solid fact, but a place of risky play where opinions form, as does the ability to express them extempore.