You do not need fancy buildings to educate people. This is the entrance to the 5th grade in the Hillary School, founded in 1961 by Edmund Hillary in the small town of Khumjung. It might look simple, but it was life changing for the Sherpa people.
While in the western world hardly any schools exist anymore that do not have a gun control checkpoint that can rival with airport security, the schools over here are filled with kids who just want a chance to learn and be educated. A lot of schools could have been built from the money spent on space shields and nuclear testing…