In Pictures: The Boy From a Village With No School Grew Up to Warm Ladakh’s Coldest Classrooms

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Learning that finally fits

SECMOL took in students who had failed their Class 10 exams, students the mainstream system had already given up on. Instead of reading textbooks, they learned by repairing solar heaters, growing food at altitude, and building their own mud-brick dormitories. Students ran the school themselves, voting on rules and rotating as cooks and administrators. The results spoke for themselves: pass rates in the region climbed from around 5% to nearly 75% within two decades.

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