We see Indian students coming and going to school. Most children walk to school, especially primary school children. India has a very youthful population with a very large number of children going to school. Thus Indians streets and roads are full of school children in the morning and afternoon. and around noon as many schools are on half-day schedules. There are many primary schools scattered all over rural India, although the small one-room scholols so common in America are unknown. As a result, most children do not have long distances to walk. There are many schools abnd the countryside is often substantially populated. Mother sometimes walk the younger children to school. Many Indian families are large and thus the older children commonly help the younger children to school.

Jittny Cabs

There are many other ways of course and some And there are some unquely Indian ways of getting to school. We see children in jitty cabs. We notice quite a number of jitnies, especially at private schools.

Animals

Here a bullock or ox draws a fl atbed waggon with a family and the children all ready for school (figure 1). There are ox carts even in the city. Secondary school studets were less likely to live in walking distance of their school.

Busses

School busses are not very common as far as we can tell, even in rural areas.

Cars

And only a few children are driven to school in the family car.

Bicycles

For some reason, bicycles do not seem all that common.