While the curriculum framers merely followed the prescription given by NCF (2005) to remove sexist bias in textbooks, they failed to understand how these initiatives in the form of depictions and mentions in the school textbook can be instrumental in changing the mindset of students who have limited understanding of gender equality. So what’s this gender equality that we want our education system to propagate?The objective is not to make the school environment supportive of gender equality but rather an environment that challenges it. Schools should, instead of stressing on gender equality, shift the focus on celebrating the biological differences between the genders which establishes their unique characteristics. Let girls and boys know they are different and that these differences are no hindrances in their life paths. Education in this essence will be truly liberating rather than advocating and imposing.