Autocrats use their countries' education systems to help entrench their regimes. That will have an adverse long-term impact on their economies.
Schoolchildren in China. Credit: Andrew Iliev via Flickr
Confrontation is not the type of interaction you expect in a small, seminar-style master’s class at the London School of Economics. Polite debate, perhaps, but not confrontation.
Yet when I was in a LSE classroom just a few years ago, just such a pattern developed. The professor would point out the negatives of China’s approach to the developing world, highlighting issues like rising debt burdens and corruption in places like Sri Lanka and Zambia. A handful of Chinese nationals in the cla
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