Peter G. Stillman said:  
> And I think his differentiation between elite education and popular education   
> seems on the surface to be sensible. But I wonder how accurate his conclusions   
> are.  
  
This made me think of a different way to slice education, not between rich and   
poor, but by gender. David Landes points out in _The Wealth and Poverty of   
Nations_ that "The economic implications of gender discrimination are most   
serious. To deny women is to deprive a country of labor and talent, but--even   
worse--to undermine the drive to achievement of boys and men." (footnotes omitted,   
p. 412.)  Landes hammers Islam pretty hard on this point.  You can add Easterly,   
Sen, and many others who have noticed that extreme gender discrimination is an   
albatross re economic development. Adam Smith (and maybe Stark?) did not notice this.  
  
Humberto Barreto