The Difference and Similarity Between Schools in the United States and Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Difference and Similarity between Schools in the United States and Afghanistan and Pakistan The novel Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin is about a mountain climber who risks his life in order to climb the second highest mountain (K2) on earth in honor of his sister. After getting lost and trying to find his way to a friend, Greg wanders off to a village, where he’s later welcomed in the village chiefs’ home. Seeing how the people lived, he promised to build the village a school for the children in return for how great the people have been to him. Schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan are very different from and similar to school in the United States.
In the United States, where many students have opportunities to attend school, there is much better technology in school for the children to use and the schools are very big. Unlike Afghanistan and Pakistan, there schools are small with little technology. For example, the children write on slates with sticks dipped in mud instead of notebooks and pencils. United States schools are also different from the schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan because girls are able to go to school with boys. In Afghanistan and Pakistan they believe the girls shouldn’t go to school and they’re little amount of girls who show up to school there. For example, Haji Mehdi tells Haji Ali that Allah (god) forbids education for girls. This is how United States schools are dissimilar from Afghanistan and Pakistan schools.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the boys and girls have to work for a living sometimes and don’t get to go to school, there are no schools within distance of the children’s village. Several of the children have to travel miles and miles in order to go to school. For example, when chief Mohammed Aslam Khan’s father woke him up one day and told him that he was leaving his home to go to school. The route he took to school was down a mountain until the trail ended at a river with
In the United States, where many students have opportunities to attend school, there is much better technology in school for the children to use and the schools are very big. Unlike Afghanistan and Pakistan, there schools are small with little technology. For example, the children write on slates with sticks dipped in mud instead of notebooks and pencils. United States schools are also different from the schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan because girls are able to go to school with boys. In Afghanistan and Pakistan they believe the girls shouldn’t go to school and they’re little amount of girls who show up to school there. For example, Haji Mehdi tells Haji Ali that Allah (god) forbids education for girls. This is how United States schools are dissimilar from Afghanistan and Pakistan schools.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the boys and girls have to work for a living sometimes and don’t get to go to school, there are no schools within distance of the children’s village. Several of the children have to travel miles and miles in order to go to school. For example, when chief Mohammed Aslam Khan’s father woke him up one day and told him that he was leaving his home to go to school. The route he took to school was down a mountain until the trail ended at a river with