“Kite Runner” Author Speaks on the Education of Women

Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini is best known for his first novel, The Kite Runner. At left, he’s pointing out that the region of the world from which he hails has had a longstanding opposition to educating women, and has paid a terrible price for it.

The public education system here in the United States has little if any such bias against women when it comes to education.  The children of families with minimal parental involvement in their kids’ schooling are very likely to be dullards, regardless of their sex.