> 1. Do you equate education with schooling, > especially of the formal kind?
Not different from what you would desire your own offspring to attain by age 24 (for example). > 2. Is there any evidence of correlation between levels of educational > attainment and quality of democratic governance for countries? With the present policy of one person one vote, throwing up all sorts of lousy people into office, (for the past few decades,) is it so difficult to imagine handing over the responsibility to the educated for a change? (at least for a few years)? Lukhman