We are creating an educational landscape where only the strong will survive. On my recent trip to Africa, I thought a lot about Charles Darwin.
Every African city is replete with comfortable homes protected by wire-topped walls.
I expect that is because, in part, they have so much less to start. While I often am concerned with the gap between rich and poor in this country, the gap between this country and the rest of the world is immense. Even America s poorest tend to have an advantage over other countries poorest. In African cities you can witness the extreme misery of squatter towns, where thousands live in extreme squalor in homes built from castaway materials. Often these are near neighborhoods of lovely, well-kept homes that are armed fortresses against the possible danger of the poor who might break in and steal.