Last night’s guest on the Daily Show was a 22-year-old man from a small village in Africa. Due to famine in his country, the young man was forced to drop out of school to help support his family. His village maintained a small library, where he would go to study anything he could find, including physics and engineering.
Although his understanding of English was rudimentary, he studied various energy concepts, including how wind power works. Then just 14-years-old, he constructed an energy producing windmill from wood and other basic supplies for his family simply by studying figures and diagrams in the texts. We could use ingenuity and work ethic like that from children in our schools.