IT IS hard to find anybody with a bad word to say about Arne Duncan, Barack Obama's young education secretary.
Fazlullah kept himself busy in exile: among other things, he issued the order to shoot Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist from Mingora.
He interviews the young education minister Kofi Baako, who brims with good nature and enthusiasm and assures Mr. Kapuscinski in his belief that "an opposition is necessary".
On our second day in Pakistan, also the day that young education activist Malala Yousafzai was being honored at Harvard, a car bomb ripped through Peshawar, killing over 40.
Among the girls whom I have taught – girls including Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist whom the Taliban tried to assassinate – I see the dignity that education can offer.
Thomas Ostros, Sweden's bright young education minister, says that freedom of choice has become more of a basic ingredient of the welfare state.About 6% of younger Swedish students, and 8% of older ones, now go to independent schools that are privately run and allowed to select students according to criteria they set themselves, for example by academic ability.
When Ruth Kelly, the rather unimpressive young education secretary, queasily announced the government's plans, the cheers were from gloating Tories rather than her own backbenchers.This is a tricky situation for Mr Blair, but for the government (which may no longer be quite the same thing), it carries a real threat.
As my colleague Declan Walsh suggested, the more lighthearted footage provided to the BBC by the militants could be an attempt to soften the image of the Pakistani Taliban, who are perhaps best known outside the country for shooting the young education activist Malala Yousafzai in the head on this day last year, and renewing threats to her life this week.
Six-years later, the work appears to be paying off for the young education technology company, as it filed paperwork with the SEC this weekend, officially declaring its intention to go public.
Malala is the courageous young education rights campaigner from Pakistan who was targeted and shot by extremists on her way to school.
And if it slows or fails to happen in full, there is a mighty force of young education campaigners who are watching.
