Re: Hum,
"I know some of you will disagree, but really, think about it. Providing that you are a loving supportive parent who wishes only the best for their child[ren] - do you want your child[ren] to work for low pay from an early age, simply because of the economic model touted as being the "best" is a good idea? Or would you prefer the gentleness of education, enabling your off-spring to avoid the drudgery of menial, physically demanding (and life shortening) work just so some arrogant, entitled, middle class oaf can get more of whatever it is they have and (pointlessly) need more of?"
Well, if education means you and the rest of the family starve before then, then it's a non-option. It's literally sink or swim for these people, so school unfortunately has to come second to food on the table.
"Surely the point of westernized politics is to bring everyone up to the same level, not reinforce the cavalier vulgarity of feudalism?"
But as noted in the Middle East, some societies aren't willing to change. You can't teach a student unwilling to learn; even threats can be blown off with a digitus impudicus. But if that student has significant influence in the international community, they can pass along their hidebound influence, placing you in a Catch-22 as you're now forced (under threat of waning influence) to curb the influence of an anti-Western philosophy that's proud to be anti-Western. Oh, and some of them see MAD as an acceptable scenario, so a threat of force will just be answered with, "My soul is prepared! How is yours?"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
