What If We Taught Children to Express, Not Just Excel? Manasi Mehan on Educating the Heart through Art

In this episode of On Second Thought, I speak with Manasi Mehan — co-founder and CEO of Saturday Art Class, an organisation bringing He(art) back into education through visual arts and social-emotional learning (SEL).

I’ve spent the early years of Saturday Art Class alongside them — sometimes up close, sometimes from afar — but always as someone who deeply believes in the world they’re building. Which is why this conversation, with Manasi as my second (and most special) guest, means so much.

We trace the arc of Saturday Art Class: from a scr ...