Imagine what it's like to be a young person living in a country that is not moving toward reform...While your peers in other parts of the world have received educations that prepare them for the opportunities of a global economy, you have been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Young people in unreformed countries face limited opportunities compared to global peers due to propaganda.
- In plain terms
- Youth in closed countries lack education and hear lies.
- What can you take from it?
- Ensure access to truth and education.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you break propaganda?
- What does education need to be global?
Another view
It assumes lack of reform is the primary cause of shortcomings.
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