Peacekeeping promotes violence

[--Pete]

Hi,

Chickens 'n eggs.

Dino's had eggs. Question answered.;)

An educational system won't function without the incentive to use it. People have no incentive to send their kids to school, nor kids to pay attention in class, if everyone knows that the best prospects for earning a living are to work for the local warlord, who either doesn't care if you're educated, or perhaps prefers it if you aren't. If an education doesn't lead to a good job, why waste your time at it, especially if your family is on the brink of starvation anyway?

John signed Magna Carta with his signet and his mark because he was illiterate. Best way to get ahead back then was to be a fighter working for the local <strike>warlord</strike> baron. Somehow education caught on anyway.

Development is a tricky thing, but this much is clear to me: there have to be incentives and programs working together.

True, but what kind of incentives? And how do you get them started?

--Pete