The Beginning of The Start

When i was a small child perhaps 3 years old i used to see from my window children from my neighborhood with bags on their backs going some were every morning.
I always used to think that what is the place where they go every day.
I was small and couldn't think much i had a maid at my place a really old one.
I asked her were was it that these children run every morning.
From her withered lips her dry tongue peeped out making me familiar to an extraordinary word SCHOOL.
I asked her what is that?
She answered me that its a place where the children are taken everyday to a lady with a stick who scolds them and beats them every morning.
I was confused why did they liked to run to such a place where they are beaten and scolded and not even given any chocolates to eat...
Few days later i heard my parents talking about my admission in a school i was scared to go there i ran to my mother and said i do not want to go to school, i am afraid of that lady with the stick, she will beat me, scold me and even not allow me to have chocolates and ice creams.
My mother with a faint smile put her hand on my cheeks wiped my tears and said," My dear school is not a place where that lady beats you or scolds you,its a place where you learn to read and write and make new friends. You enjoy a lot with them and then you are also given good things to eat. Do not be afraid of school it is a nice place to go have not u seen the children going there running every morning?? If it was a bad place then why would they go there everyday so happily?".
I was convinced and that was how i came to know what school was to myself i made out that school was a place where you start... its the place for the beginning of learning, writing, knowledge, friendship.. a start for everything.