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During my trip to Ethiopia in February 2009 I met a few Ethiopian children and young people. I was agreeably surprised at their knowledge of a foreign language, in this case English - which they learn in addition to Amharic (the national language) and their own tribe dialect - as compared to children in most European countries. Though they very often must walk for hours to go to school, which is far away, they make this effort because they are eager to learn. School material is also lacking badly; sometimes they don’t even have pencils for writing. But all these children want to go to school and strive for learning.
In Western countries, children are spoiled by having beyond their needs; but they complain when asked to do any effort...