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If you’ve ever sprained your right-hand as a righty, there’s no denying that you’ve ambled about like a toddler through daily tasks. Anything, right from brushing your teeth to combing your hair — or worse jotting down notes in class while your professor goes off on yet another speedy tangent. However, for the kids at Veena Vadini Public School, functioning with either hand is a basic skill.
Set up in 1999 by former soldier, VP Sharma, this unique school teaches their students ambidexterity while enhancing concentration. In a report by TOI, he said that he was inspired by President Rajendra Prasad who could write with both his hands. This very story inspired him to teach the students at his school the same. Located in his home town Budhela, a village in Madhya Pradesh, the school has approximately 300 students. They are taught to write with both hands from Grade 1 and by Grade 3, they’re all confident of their ability. As the children grow older, their speed increases along with their abilities. They can then write two scripts of different languages at the same time, right from Hindi and English to Urdu and Sanskrit as Sharma encourages them to learn more languages.
The children’s ability has even brought down a team from South Korea who studied the school and the students as part of their research on ambidexterity. Using both hands has often led to the assumption that it could make a person smarter; a fact that has been contested through a variety of studies. While these very studies have gone on to claim that ambidexterity has little to do with an increase in your brain power, we can at least agree on this — this school certainly teaches their students a skill like no other. Being able to write in two languages at the same time is truly a commendable feat.
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