India, Dec. 11 -- The teachers and I sat on the floor and chatted. He sat quietly outside the circle, doodling on a small notebook. He was nine years old. He was gentle and caring, but his rage could explode the next moment into a vicious vortex of violence, unmanageable by the teachers. They had figured that an effective way of dealing with him was to let him do exactly what he wanted, and then he would be calm, would try to learn, and generally be cooperative. That day four years ago, he had decided that he wanted to sit with us and not in his class, and so it was....