School Rules Supreme

Alan Lightman, who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells of a visit to Tramung Chrum, and how the village of about 500 people, 40 miles from Phnom Penh, now has its first brick-and-mortar school.

Yet they crave education. Education ranks alongside food and water as a necessity of life. The school at Tramung Chrum, with its three classrooms and library, took four months to build with a 20-man crew from Phnom Penh.

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