Young tribe members' education includes learning the ancient art of snake charming, reported The Daily Mail.
"It's the one class where everyone's paying attention at the back," said the paper. "Being a few feet away from a poisonous snake has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind." The training begins when children are two-years-old. "At 12, children know everything they can know about snakes," said chief snake charmer Babanath Mithunath Madari.
The only snag is that snake charming is illegal in India. "The police routinely search us and strip us of our snakes," Madari said. Maybe there's room for a new-style academy in the UK featuring snake studies on the curriculum.
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