Mongolia vs Jordan
Side-by-side comparison of how these places approach childhood.
Mongolia
Mongolian children as young as five race horses across the open steppe in national festivals.
During Naadam festival, children jockeys ride bareback for 15-30 km across open grassland in a tradition dating back centuries.
Jordan
One in five students in Jordanian public schools is a Syrian refugee child.
Jordan hosts 660,000 Syrian refugees, and its schools have absorbed their children through a double-shift system.
Mongolia
Mongolia follows a 5-4-3 structure with 12 years of compulsory education. Mongolian is the language of instruction in Cyrillic script. Boarding schools serve nomadic herder families. English is taught from grade 5.
Jordan
Jordan's 10-2 compulsory system has expanded dramatically to absorb Syrian refugee children. Many schools operate double shifts โ Jordanian children in the morning, Syrian children in the afternoon. Education is free through secondary school.
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