I don't agree giving emerging nations money for education is the first priority.
It is much more important to ask who has power, and the force to retain it.
take the power and enforce the education. my point regading the military defending communities surrounding a school.
- The west has been throwing money at Africa for at least 100 years and the scale and number of atrocities has risen.
...in aid. see "indonesia" and add tribal elements.
- Tibet are reasonably well educated but the Chinese still just walked in.
Tibetans are predominantly buddhist and have minimal military or worldstage political clout to combat the Chinese.
- The educated of Iraq and Iran have had to seek refuge. A small religio/militant minority can overwhelm a passive educated majority easily.
unfortunately this is a sad state of affairs.
- Consider Burma. An overwhelming majority of Burmese want Aung Sung Suu Kyi for President, but the military dictators will not surrender power.
because of.....aid. see "indonesia" and add jerusel-astien hatred.
Aid dollars make their way to the corrupt to maintain power.
There's a strong argument that the more educated people are, the less prepared they are to take a stand and fight oppression. So much easier to seek asylum in Australia.
I cannot think of one emerging nation that has rid itself of tyrants and oppressors by first educating the masses, in the days of modern weaponry.
could be because the US doesn't allow it, they assasinate democratically elected presidents and install dictators to suppress legitimate regimes. see Chile, Panama, Iraq, Argentina, Mexico, Angola, Georgia, Turkey, Egypt....
When many developed nations attained democracy, commoners could take on the forces of tyrants fairly equal handed. In the last 70 years that has become increasingly difficult. A farmer's sickle is no match for an automatic machine gun and cheap grenades, and the sociopathic conditioning of a tyrant's troops.
yeah Halliburton have a fair bit to answer for, along with the US foreign policy.
