For this a certain adjustment is necessary, and we need to spend time with them, because they all have different situations and abilities. Presently the Centre is guided and run by long time social worker Zerina from India and Aurovilian Karin from Germany. On one hand the very poor parents aren't able to support their children. Being illiterate themselves they are hardly able to help them with their homework. Besides that, there's the existing rigid educational system.
Many teachers are totally unmotivated, using blind repetition as a teaching method.
There is also a lot of pressure on children of non-caste families. Still this is not all. Even if a poor rural child is lucky enough to pass entirely through the normal course of schooling, it will not have provided him with skills necessary for surviving in a rural community, thus youngsters prefer to leave their village for urban employment - adding to the urban overcrowding, the disappearance of rural artisans and the impoverishment of the rural economy. In Auroville's Life Education Centre they get a new chance. They are trained for about two years in basic skills like writing and reading Tamil, in mathematics, English, typewriting and some basic computer-skills.