Having access to a good education is one of the biggest, cheapest, and best ways we can enrich a person’s life. It’s about far more than just acquiring knowledge; having a good education correlates with better health, longer life, and increased happiness. It’s linked with better economic outcomes, higher social mobility and cohesion, stronger job stability and resilience; and lower rates of chronic disease, mental health issues, smoking, obesity, and substance abuse, lower rates of domestic violence, suicide, unemployment, criminality, incarceration, gang violence, and teen parenthood… to name just a few. Education is perhaps the single best way of lifting a community, or whole country out of poverty, and immiseration, to maximise choice, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. It increases our ability to reach for the things in life worth living for. And so, when I point to the educational decline of young men and boys, where the needle has tipped into the red for decades, and a generation of boys fall back and bottom out; lagging further, and further behind their female compatriots, I am pointing to a problem far more serious than them merely having worse grades. I am pointing, in many ways, to millions of lives not fully lived, and endless potential, remaining unrealized. And let’s be clear on that. Boys and young men are behind in education, at every age, in every area, in every racial group, and in every developed country – with few exceptions. No. We’re not talking about a couple of flunked classes, or failed year groups, a blip, or anomaly, that can be overlooked or waved away. I am talking about systemic failure of boys, on a societal and international level, that nobody seems to care about. And so, today I ask, if our boys are doing so badly, and are in such dire need of help, then why do the vast majority of sex-based scholarships and awards still go to girls? What do you think? ~ Associates Degrees https://tinyurl.com/bdcmewv6 Bachelors https://tinyurl.com/47te8wa3 Masters https://tinyurl.com/mrx8k5b7 PhDs https://tinyurl.com/3ykx8pfh Scholarships https://tinyurl.com/t3pfjp4j

2025-07-23