My Improbable Graduation: From a Tiny Village in Ghana to Johns Hopkins
I've always got mixed feelings on stories like this.<p>On one hand, it's a heartwarming story of a man breaking through barriers to achieve success from desperate beginnings. Kind of an American dream story, really.<p>But if everyone with those qualities leaves the community, the rest of the people are helpless and will be mired in poverty forever.<p>It's difficult, morally, to balance the benefit gained by the guy who took the action, compared to the loss his community suffered by his departure.<p>In any case, I think this sort of thing is a significant reason why countries don't develop. Change always starts from a small group of changemakers - if those people all just emigrate, nothing will ever change.<p>Migration since the 60's has become a giant IQ-sorting system and that's having huge consequences on all sides. And this never seems to get discussed, oddly.