The importance of education and the risk of lack of it

Every nation’s future is strictly associated to how well it educates the current and upcoming generations.
It is disheartening to notice that “education” seems to be a nonexistent issue in any political campaign, especially in the present U.S. presidential campaign.
More than a million American kids drop out of high school every year, according to official statistics, in a world that is becoming more and more competitive every day.
“We have one of the highest dropout rates in the industrialized world,” said Allan Golston, the president of U.S. programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Education lifts families out of poverty and expands its horizons.
Illiteracy is one of the roots of problems dogging the world today.
Education should aim to promote interfaith understanding and stress multiculturalism and universal values.
Some teachers instead don’t have knowledge, but they are influential, because they use the schools to advance their own political agenda.
Real life is more complicated than black-and-white ideology.