Can education beat inequality?

Jan 22, 2016

Teacher Reginald Sikhwari poses for a picture with his class of grade 11 students at Sekano-Ntoane school in Soweto, South Africa, September 17, 2015.

"Addressing inequality requires far more than educating the relatively small share of the total population that we welcome to our campuses each year." Image: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Drew Gilpin Faust

President (2007-2018), Harvard University

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