Friday, November 16, 2007

School In A Cave

Next time your parents tell you the tale of how they had to walk uphill both ways in the snow when they went to school, tell them this story.

Children in southwest China's Guizhou province are attending classes at the Dongzhong primary school, which literally means "in cave". The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts. If you wondered what education would look like after the apocalypse, here you go. I don't know how fit the school is, but given the toxic food, medicine, and toys coming out of China in the last year, something tells me there may be some early development issues leading to poor decision making and planning as adults.







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