Centuries of slavery meant the country's leaders long neglected education.
Instead the blame lies largely with successive governments in Pakistan, which have neglected education and created the phenomenon of the "ghost school", a school that exists only on paper.
Lewis notes that even Oher's blaringly obvious physical gifts were almost overlooked, lost in the shuffle of his foster homes and neglected education, and wonders who is spotting the children from his background who might be, say, gifted scientists.
Building good citizens stayed right up there with reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic as a key goal of education and was one of the early justifications for providing public schools for all, as leaders continued to argue that if educating every child benefitted the whole community neglecting education was dangerous for everyone.
While securing peace remains his top priority, Mr. Katta warned about the pitfalls of neglecting education.
"Turkmenbashi the Great has died," said a news presenter on state television, using Mr. Niyazov's adopted moniker, which means "Leader of All Ethnic Turkmens". Mr. Niyazov dominated his country of 5 million people for more than 15 years, neglecting education and health care while using hundreds of millions of dollars from natural gas exports to build monuments to his glory.
One of Mr. Saleh's most destructive legacies is the de facto autonomy of the northern tribes, which he propped up with financial aid to the detriment of the urban middle class, business interests and the rule of law; he further weakened the state by neglecting education and institution-building, analysts say.
WASHINGTON — Seated in Michelle Obama's box on Tuesday night were living symbols of the ideas in President Obama's first speech to a joint session of Congress, including a bank executive, Leonard Abess, who shared a vast fortune with his employees, and an eighth-grade student from South Carolina, Ty'Sheoma Bethea, who in a letter had urged Congress not to neglect education financing.
Corrections officials say the forces that converged to create Tallulah -- the incarceration of more and more mentally ill adolescents, a rush by politicians to build new prisons while neglecting education and psychiatric services, and states' handing responsibility for juvenile offenders to private companies -- have caused the deterioration of juvenile prisons across the country.
In one of his many curse-bombs, Trump lamented the nation's focus on building schools in war-torn Afghanistan, while neglecting education in the United States.
Too many of us have shortchanged our brothers and sisters by attending only to our own children's education and neglecting the education of others.
