BUILDING SCHOOLS IN RURAL NEPAL (Satis Shroff) Street scene in Patan, Kathmandu Valley (A school in the hills of Nepal: it's better in the sunny grass than in the dark, narrow building.) Before the earthquake in the Nepal the school buildings were so dark that the school-children couldn’t see what was written on the blackboard. The old method of bricks and clay couldn’t withstand the devastating quakes, and a result the walls fell like a house of cards. The Swiss Caritas schools will have enough windows and doors, with good architecture to motivate better learning. According to Marilyn Hoar, the classes are mostly big and a Nepali teacher has 70 pupils in a room. In Nepali schools there are only frontal lessons and no group work, no interactive learning. This is due to the deficient pedagogic education of the teachers in general in Nepal. ‘90% of the teachers have no idea of didactic and teaching-methods,’ says Anil Sapkota, from the NGO FairEducation. ‘The st
