Though Arab authoritarianism had a good run from the 1950s until the 1980s, economies eventually stagnated, debts mounted and growing, well-educated populations saw the prosperous egalitarian societies they had been promised receding over the horizon, aggrieving virtually everyone, secularists and Islamists alike.
An older, slower growing and less well educated population will always have less economic wealth than a younger, growing and better educated population.
Mothers felt a keen responsibility and a duty, frequently using words such as 'ought' and 'should', to ensure the smooth functioning of the family, to keep the child growing well and for it to be correctly educated.
Instead, she cried, and comforted herself with the hope that one day she would see her little girls, grown up and well educated, and they would understand why she gave them up.
Our CHF International staff in Ghana, and those of our local partner organizations, mostly young Ghanaians, are emblematic of the growing middle classes -- smart, well educated and enthusiastic, with a commitment to improving conditions in their own country and communities.
What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital --reap the majority of the ecapital --reaps.
Mr. Palmer grew up middle class and well educated in the Dublin suburbs and like many Irish "settled" people, he knew travelers from seeing them solicit work at the door, women asking for old clothes to mend and sell, and men offering their tinsmithing skills to fix garden tools and sharpen knives.
Jessie grew up cultured and sophisticated, well educated — as a child she browsed through Thomas Jefferson's 6,000-volume collection of books in the Library of Congress — and, because of her looks, was much sought after as a bride by the likes of President Martin Van Buren.
The two children were well educated and grew up to assist their father in his enterprises.
There is growing evidence that Moocs thus overwhelmingly recruit the well educated.
