For that, it is vital that it educates its people well.Mr Piñera rightly argues that additional spending on education should go mainly on improving schools and extending pre-school facilities.
The programme supplies school children with one nutritionally balanced meal a day, educates students about nutrition and encourages sustainable gardening in schools and communities.
Today, the religious right and wealthy free-marketeers both long to privatize a system that educates 50 million students, but for different reasons.
Seasonality teaches us patience and restraint during the lean months and educates our palates about what proper fruit tastes like during times of harvest.
Trevor Phillips, one of Labour's favoured candidates for the mayoralty of London, also educates his children privately.
The region neither saves and invests sufficiently, nor educates and innovates enough.
Other countries have also set up state-funded venture capital firms, but Estonia's SmartCap has been much more than a source of money; it educates investors and has given legal advice to start-ups.
This approach allows fast time-to-market and means the ODM cannot supply the improved design to rivals.The risk, notes Mr Wood, is that this process also educates the ODM.
It now educates a smaller proportion of its 15- to 19-year-olds than it did in 1995 (see chart), a dubious accolade shared only by France among the 30 OECD members.
Germany, which educates about a third of its least gifted children in vocational schools, has recently reformed the national curriculum so that all pupils must meet minimum standards in literacy, numeracy and science, and more able students must learn a foreign language too.
America educates foreign scientists in its universities and then expels them, a policy the mayor of New York calls "national suicide .This illiberal turn in attitudes to migration is no surprise.
