Classrooms Around the World

Tokyo, JAPAN

Beijing, CHINA

In China, classes are sometimes cancelled due to pollution levels in the air.

A biology teacher broadcast her course in a classroom to students at home during a polluted day.

Ahmedabad, INDIA

Students observe traditional rituals

At this school assembly, students offered prayers

to their parents during an event called Matru-

Pitru Puja, or Parents Worship, in 2017.

Tunis, TUNISIA

Students in Tunisia cross their arms to show that they're paying attention.

Hoan Su Phi, VIETNAM

This third-grade class in Vietnam's Dong Van district has no electricity or books.

Marseille, FRANCE

Soweto, SOUTH AFRICA

Kuala Lumpur,MALAYSIA

Tahfiz or Koranic students recite the Koran in Madrasah Nurul Imanboarding school

Eichenau, GERMANY

Nursery students eat breakfast before starting their day.

Sydney, AUSTRALIA

These chemistry students were making the compound of an anti-parasitic medicine used to treat malaria, called Daraprim.

Ankara, TURKEY

Syrian refugee students

Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

In this art class, children painted handmade sheets of paper made from recycled cigarette butts.

Bermeo, SPAIN

Middlesex, ENGLAND

The school uniform in Old Schools at Harrow School in Middlesex, includes straw hats.

Rabat, MOROCCO

Kiev, UKRAINE

Final year students

Tblisi, GEORGIA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston Latin School is the first and oldest public school in the US, founded in 1635.

Akamat Al Me’gab, YEMEN

This is the whole school. It is a one-room primary school in a tiny village in a mountainous, largely agricultural region of Yemen. There was no electricity.

Small rural schools such as this were more relaxed about boys and girls being taught together. The older kids were helping to teach the younger ones.

Tiracanchi, PERUThe biggest problem at this remote secondary school is a lack of teachers – none of the local population is educated enough to teach, and none of the teachers from the cities wants to live in this very remote place earning very little money.

Gambella, ETHIOPIA

An elementary school of 5 classes in rural Ethiopia.

Jessore, BANGLADESH

This isn’t a military school, it was just their uniform. The school was very strict and regimented, and the boys were taught by rote.

Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA

There were around 60 children in this class, but others in this school had closer to 90.

Some of the classrooms were more like outdoor rooms with a roof.

Taipei, TAIWAN

These students ate lunch together in their classroom and then took a 30 minute nap at their desks.

Old Havana, CUBA

Doha, QATAR

St Petersburg, RUSSIA

Aytré,FRANCE

Zhujiajiao,CHINA

A young girl writing

Chinese characters at

an elementary school

Daraa, SYRIAA Syrian boy practices basic arithmetic during class in a barn that has been converted into a makeshift school in a rebel-held area.

Jerusalem, ISRAEL

Ultra-Orthodox students pray during a reading class at the Kehilot YaacovTorah School for boys in the Ramotneighbourhood.

LuangPrabang

LAOS

Young Buddhist

monks attend

class at a temple school

Kampala, UGANDA

Lahore, PAKISTAN

Geneina,SUDAN

Sudanese girls sit in a classroom at the El-

Riyadh camp for internally displaced

people.

Lanao del Norte,PHILIPPINESJohainahNasrodeng, 5, writing in her notebook at a makeshift classroom for student evacuees at the Pantar Central Elementary School

Hodeidah, YEMEN

Yemeni students enter a makeshift classroom in the city of Hodeidah, on March 15, 2016, after their school was damaged during the country's ongoing conflict between the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Shiite Houthi rebels.

Wenshui, CHINA

Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA

Cox’s Bazaar, BANGLADESH

A class at a makeshift school at BalukhaliMakeshift Refugee Camp

Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

Maiduguri,NIGERIA

Children attend a class at a makeshift preschool supported by Save the Children.