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Nearly Everywhere Buddhism Went, There Had Been A Higher Level Of Literacy, Even In Miserable Burma, Not To Mention Thailand And Sri Lanka.

Education Makes Us The Human Beings We Are. It Has Major Impacts On Economic Development, On Social Equity, Gender Equity. In All Kinds Of Ways, Our Lives Are Transformed By Education And Security. Even If It Had Not One Iota Of Effect [on] Security, It Would Still Remain In My Judgment The Biggest Priority In The World.

South Korea From A Country That Had Relatively Little Primary Education Became Close To Universal Literacy In The Course Of 25, 30 Years, In A Way Trying To Replicate What Japan Had Done Earlier. They Were Learning To Some Extent From The Japanese Experience Too. So I Think, In A Sense, The East Asians Were Following A Path, Which All Other Countries Including South Asia Could Follow But Chose Not Too.

Famines Occur Under A Colonial Administration, Like The British Raj In India Or For That Matter In Ireland, Or Under Military Dictators In One Country After Another, Like Somalia And Ethiopia, Or In One-party States Like The Soviet Union And China.

Across The World, In Africa, Asia, Latin America, Everywhere, There Is A Widespread Recognition On The Part Of The Parents, Too, That The Children's Life Will Go Much Better By Being Educated. And That Applies To Girls As Well As Boys.