As shown at left, there are nations whose policies towards education are such that young people are actually encouraged to graduate from college.  Voters in these countries believe that their societies will be better and stronger if their citizens spend four years reading the world’s most important books, learning to write well, coming to understand science, and asking themselves the great questions that have been troubling humankind since we lived in caves.

The truth about the Unites States, and this is the case in so many areas of human endeavor here, we simply don’t care.  Whether it’s education, climate change mitigation, women’s rights, gun laws, or the disintegration of rule of law, our leaders are leading us nowhere.

Education Around the World