Education lessons from one of the world's toughest places
![Liberian children watch their friends play [soccer] on the outskirts of the Liberian capital Monrovia, August 28, 2005. [Thousands of Liberians who fled their villages during 14 years of civil war say they will refuse to vote in October elections if they are left stranded in refugee camps. Election fever is gripping the battered capital Monrovia ahead of the country's first post-war polls, with youths parading through town in convoys of cars and blocking traffic as they scream support for their candidates.] - PBEAHUNXSHC](https://assets.weforum.org/article/image/large_CHhETsmamG0sRI9W1W1dWqOmtEs56PGgPd_c2NEai24.jpg)
Liberia's country's education system had been devastated by civil war Image: Finbarr O'Reilly/REUTERS
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