Bhutan - Family

To the point below, I recently read in a paper by Frank Dixon, www.globalsystemchange.com/GSC/Articles.htlm, " Complexity ( of measuring GNH ) will be ...... increased by the likely need to develop alternative means of measuring success. Literacy and education provide good examples of this. Illiteracy is high in Bhutan*. This would be seen as bad from a Western perspective. However, Bhutanese children may be far better educated on the most important aspects of life than American children. Bhutanese children spend much more time with their parents. In doing so, they learn cultural values, social skills, and the agricultural and other skills needed to sustain them over their lives.

* this foot note is mine. The committment to education is most impressive in Bhutan, however daunting the terrain and the relative nascent stages of the system.
More on education ( and more adorable children!) will follow.