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India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has reimagined learning as a journey of holistic growth rather than a race for marks. At the heart of this shift lies an overlooked insight: a child cannot climb Bloom’s ladder of cognition without first standing securely on Maslow’s foundation of needs. Jammu & Kashmir’s classrooms, shaped by reform and resilience, reveal what happens when education begins not with content—but with care.
Every few years, education in India gets a new policy, a new framework, a new slogan. But the real revolution is quieter—it is happening inside classrooms, where teachers are rediscovering that how a child feels matters as much as what a child learns.
Two timeless models illuminate this truth. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs charts human dev