Teacher Durori's Learning Aid
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The class begins in one hour's time. Already, the sixth graders at the Elementary School No. 2 in the village of Kecila in Banyumas, Central Java, have arrived for the day's classes. Schoolbags are a luxury to the children of the poor families in the village. Most carry their books in their hands. Others, those who can afford it, carry them in plastic bags. The white uniforms they wear have lost their whiteness.
One by one the studen
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