Utilizing a qualitative research tne thodology', the researcher presents a portrait of the Jnana Prabhodini School in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Observations, interviews, and document review were conducted. The purpose of the school is to educate gifted and talented students not only for academics, but for motivation to help their state, country, and the world. The school is indigenous, based on the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda. The rhetoric of the field of the education of the gifted and talented is that bright students are our future leaders. This school in India steens more geared to producing leaders than does current gifted education in the United States. The JP school seems to fall within the philosophies of Freire and Krishnamurti, who urged that education should lead to liberation of students' minds from the conditioning of society and then to the liberation of others.
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