My Improbable Graduation: From a Tiny Village in Ghana to Johns Hopkins
I've always got mixed feelings on stories like this.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.But if everyone with those qualities leaves the community, the rest of the people are helpless and will be mired in poverty forever.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.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.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.