People who aren't educated enough often are road kill around the world

 It reminds me of the saying "Ignorance is Bliss" and I found this to be true the most of anyplace I had ever been in Nepal and India. Why?

Because when I went to Nepal and India there was NO public education of any kind.

Imagine you were in the U.S. and there were ONLY private schools that cost 25,000 dollars to 35,000 dollars a year or more to get educated at all!

This is what it was like in Nepal and India in 1985 and 1986. Hopefully it has changed a lot since then. So, I would say in Nepal as I hired a driver named Johnnie to drive my family and I to the India Border with Nepal I saw things like a water buffalo or Yak walking around in a circle grinding barley or wheat or corn like a 1000 years ago. I saw people walking their cattle (yaks and other things down the main road with cars and trucks honking at them. I literally saw Kubota Tractors (little roto tiller kinds of tractors where you don't even ride on them pulling little trailers filled with whole families sitting where Goats and sheep would  normally sit riding to market when they were sold or bought.

I realized there was no electricity at all where I was outside of Kathmandu on the way to the Indian border. I realized there were no public schools for ANYONE to go to in India and Nepal. and not only that if you didn't have dress clothes like boys wearing suits and ties and oxford shoes you weren't allowed to go to school then as well.

Then on a bus in New Delhi I talked to the ticket taker in the bus who told me how grateful he was that someone (An American) had paid for him to go to a private school so he could grow up to be a ticket taker on a bus because without a high school education he NEVER could have done this at all ever.

Then I met people both men and women and boys and girls who had never been to even first grade in school. And they were very into the magical thinking that people have used to stay alive in India and Nepal the last 10,000 years or so already.

Remember, in 1985  and 1986 only the richest people were educated at all.

And so you don't have to think very far why there were dead bodies in the streets often because they never went to even first grade and were beggars their whole lives.

Without an education in India people died like flies when I was there with nothing, no birth certificate (because they were not even born inside a building but likely under a tree somewhere) so they could never legally leave the country for any other country because without a birth certificate you can never get a passport and without a passport you can never leave any country (legally at least) you are in around the world.

So, people who are never educated become road kill in India and all around the world still today.

However, hopefully it has changed from what it was like in 1985 and 1986 by today. I'm not sure because I haven't been back because I was busy raising children and putting them through college and stuff like that.