The War on Education
To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS is republishing a selection of commentaries written since 1994. In the following commentary, Gordon Brown illuminated the savage – and global – war being waged against the fundamental right of all children to an education.
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LONDON – The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram is beyond outrageous. Sadly, it is just the latest battle in a savage war being waged against the fundamental right of all children to an education. That war is global, as similarly horrifying incidents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia attest.