Tibetan education thrives - in exile

[Francis Hult]

The Christian Science Monitor

 

Tibetan education thrives - in exile

 

In a sunny classroom in this Tibetan exile community, preschoolers stack blocks and color. One boy crouches on the floor over flashcards bearing pictures and English words. Alongside him, the sight of a little girl arranging cards with spiky Tibetan script hints that this school is anything but typical. 

 

Some 2,000 Tibetan children live, study, and play here at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, the Indian hill town that is the Dalai Lama's home in exile. The school, which goes through 12th grade, also has about 150 Indian, European, Japanese, and South Korean students whose parents have settled in the area. 

 

Full story:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0306/p07s03-wosc.html

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