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We Need More Perfectness

Usha Madam has particular phrases that she loves. My favorite of her phrases is: "We need more perfectness." The meaning of the phrase is (usually) that we, the Rainbow School team, are working on a plan to fix something. Usha Madam conducted an interview for a journalist, and this was one of her follow up quotes: "Before was no school, now the children and parents have good ideas about education. What changed is they understand the loss of [the] education. And, what the children love now is the [types of] respect they have in their community and what they can give their society now that they have education. They can realize their destiny with education. "If they have a choice of one chocolate or education, before they would choose chocolate. Now, they would choose education." How brilliant is that! Usha has left for her new post at the Madhapur Mandal School, about 2 miles away. We will still see her often. I'm not worried, the rest of the team is...