Book Recommendation: Three Cups of Tea

Just finished a fantastic book and I can't recommend it enough: Three Cups
of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It's about a retired
mountain climber who decides to start building schools in the most remote
regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, primarily for girls. An incredible,
yet very recent tale (starting in 1993), I can't count the number of times I
teared up with inspiration.

Update (Nov 2014): Unfortunately this book has been exposed by Jon Krakauer to be full of blatant lies. Very very disappointing. Funds have been squandered and very little has been delivered on successfully. :-(

One of the many things about this book that struck me was how desperate the
children were to learn. They would sit outside in the cold, huddled
together for warmth, without a teacher, pouring over an addition problem
scratched in the dirt.
Today I had to repeatedly wake up a handful of learners in my class - even
when it was a fairly interesting class (sigh, grade 8). I find myself
wondering several things...At Greg Mortenson's schools, a few years after
they've been built, do all the kids still relish the opportunity of an
education? Or is it just the way of *some* kids everywhere to just flat out
not care, so long as they themselves didn't have to fight for their
schooling? Why is it that in some areas, even when parents are not
educated, they are still able to instill the value of education in their
children? What's going on here in Namibia? If I had to guess, I'd say 25%
or maybe 20% of the learners here give a damn. As I type, I realize that
this is probably true in most countries. And Mark M. will be quick to point
out that I excelled in the system of education so it's hard for me to see
many other paths. But education aside, A's, B's, bah...aren't people
naturally curious about things? Don't folks get bored staring off into
space for hours on end or just sleeping days away? Bleh, but I guess if
they only understand every 10th word out of my mouth that changes the game
quite a bit. The 20-25% are who I'm here for, and the odd random that I can
get through to. I know that. Alright, I'm rambling.
.......Regardless, read the book. You'll love it.