Schools around the world

1. Schools around the world Six-year-old Japanese elemetary student Seishi Nishida (C) raises his hand along with classmates at school in Tokyo on June 11.

2. Palestinian school children stand at the patio of their UNRWA school on the first day of the new school year in Gaza City, on August 25.

3. Leon, 9, walks to school in Moudon, western Switzerland on June 20. (FabriceCoffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

4. Indian Muslim girls recite the Holy Quran in their class room during the holy month of Ramadan at Madrasatur-Rashaad religious school in Hyderabad on July 17. 

5. Maia, 5 years old, gets a hug from her nanny on her way to school outside her home in Hong Kong on June 18.

6. Kelvin Leadismo,12, with his schoolbag hanging on his shoulder, tends to his family's cattle at Kisima township of Kenya's nothern county of Samburu before he heads off at tuition on July 17.

7. Guatemalan Margarita Samayoa kisses her six-year-old daughter ValentinaRodas before she enters school in Guatemala City on July 8.

8. Colombian indigenous child from the Nasa ethnic group GariCamayoPito, 12, (2nd-L) and his sister (R) meet two cousins on their way to school in the village of Las Guacas, rural area of Florida, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on June 21.

9. Salvadorean girl Silvia Alvarado, 10 years old, prepares to go to school in the village of Metalio, in the city of Acajutla, 50 Km. west from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 1

10. Nine-year-old South Korean student Lim Jee-Woo walks to school in Goyang, north of Seoul on June 14.

11. Genesis Tuazon, 8 years old, grade three student at the Pangulo Elementary School, works on her school assignment inside her house at the Artex Compound in Malabon City, Manila on June 14.

12. Six-year-old monk apprentice TandiDorji (C) as he walks to breakfast at a monastery in Thimpu, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan on June 3.

13. Venezuelan child Leobardo Medina, 8, goes to school in Caracas, on June 20.

14. A Bosnian boy, AldemarAlikavazovic, 12, walks in his neighborhood in a western suburb of Sarajevo on his way to school on June 27.

15. Kenier Alvarado combs her son GeralSequeira's hair before he goes to school in La Carpio neighborhood, in San Jose, Costa Rica on August 22.

16. Wei Hanqi, 9, packs his bag as he prepares to walk to school in Beijing on June 19.

17. Egyptian student Farris Hamid, 6, opens his schoolbag in the hallway at the Egypt British International school in Cairo on June 12. 

18. A child walks to school on June 11 in Qunu, a village outside the town of Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up.

19. (Top L): Kelvin Leadismo, 12, empties his schoolbag in Kisima township of Kenya's nothern county of Samburu. (Top R): View of Emma Xerroch's schoolbag taken in La Orotava on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. (Bottom L): View of 9-year-old South Korean student Lim Jee-Woo's schoolbag and accessories at her home in Goyang, north of Seoul.

20. Seven-year-old Thai student ChamayaPamutito (2nd row of children, 2nd L) listens to a teacher in the computer room at a school in Bangkok on June 6

21. Seven-year-old EmaLanska walks with her mother on the Charles bridge on her way to school in Prague on June 18.

22. Genesis Tuazon, 8 years old, rides on a boat to go to school from her house at the Artex Compound in Malabon City, Manila on June 14.

23. Six-year-old monk apprentice TandiDorji (L) sits in a group with other young monks repeating holy scriptures in front of their teacher at a monastery in Thimpu, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

24. Senegalese 7-year-old pupil NdeyeFatouNdiaye attends a lesson in her classroom, on June 10 at the Franco-Arab school of Diagnel, 14km south of Kaolack, central Senegal.

25. Silvia Alvarado (2nd R), 10, lines up before class at the Bernd Grabs School, in the village of Metalio, city of Acajutla, 50 Km. west from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 1.

26. Kelvin Leadismo (3rd L), 12, and his classmates attend a tuition class at Loltulelei primary school in Kisima township of Kenya's nothern county of Samburu. 

27. Gerald Sequeira, 8, at school in La Carpio neighborhood, in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 21.

28. ValentinaRodas, 6, stretches at school in Guatemala City on July 8.

29. Six-year-old student Frances McMillan (R) studies with classmates at school in the Coogee suburb of Sydney on June 17.

30. Kelvin Leadismo,12, does his homework by a firelight in his family's manyatta (traditional home plastered with cowdung) with his siblings in Kisima township of Kenya's northern country of Samburu.

31. YibanathiMatikinca, 10, does her homework on June 14 at her home in Qunu, a village outside the town of Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

32. Hungarian pupil Csongor uses the tram to go to school in Budapest on June 15.

33. Children sit in their classroom of their UNRWA school on the first day of the new school year in Gaza City, on August 25.

34. Seven-year-old Thai student ChamayaPamutito rides a scooter as she travels back from school along with her father and mother in Bangkok on June 6. 

35. Autumn Watson does her homework in her dining room in Centreville, Maryland, after class at Centreville Elementary on April 30.

36. OmozeOgwogho, 7, a pupil of the Christower International Schools, one of Nigeria's private schools, sings on June 6 during morning assembly in the southwestern city of Ibafo, Ogun State.

37. Six-year-old Japanese elemetary student Seishi Nishida walks to school in Tokyo on June 11.