Bhutan - Education

I arrived at Gantay primary early before the teachers and principal and so did, from all appearances, all of the children. Arriving entirely by foot and many from great distances, the children crossed a newly built little bridge over a wet land in their proper outfits and rubber boots to get to the school. Gantay is high in the Himalayian clouds and, at this time of early monsoon, already pretty wet.
At that time before assembly, there were several unsupervised activities going on at once - hopscotch, rock toss, ball games and what Journeys School would call "hands to work", that is, sweeping, picking up litter and emptying the water barrel.
It was impressive, needless to say, that this "hands to work" had no monitors and was all done quietly and efficiently. I was to see this at the other schools, both higher levels, as well. Self discipline and responsibility appear to be clear priorities in the Bhutanese schools.
You cannot see it in this size photo but in the third picture down the girl is picking up bit of trash so tiny that you or I might fail to even see it.
In the above picture the girls are moving the water along after a group of little boys had emptied the barrel of water collected over night into the small gutter.