democracy is the rule of the people, and it can only work when these people are well educated

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Do you think democracy is the best system to organize a society? Are the countries in North Africa heading to build a democracy? Why/why not?


Mahmoud Mabrouk
Yes democracy is the best known system. As for if the north african countries are heading toward it, I think they are, but in different paces: democracy is the rule of the people, and it can only work when these people are well educated. Unfortunately, the level of education varies between north african countries, some like Tunisia have a high percentage (although much less that first word countries), and other like Mouritania have a 50% illiteracy rate.

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I don't mean by education only civil right or human rights. For example, a teenager can know well enough his rights but he will behave in a wrong manner much of the time.
Education is a general concept, an educated person in my view would have a sufficient knowledge on the world, some general knowledge about the history, the economy ...
The knowledge you would expect of a person who finished high school in a first world country with a good educational system. This kind of person is able to make choices in election on who will rule him taking into account the real challenges and problems of the country in question and the solutions proposed by the candidates, he will not make his choices over emotional (religion, faux-moral problems ..), gossip or tribal/regional matters.
He will be able also to make changes and be active in the public life, not just a passive voter each 5 years.
Of course, the picture I paint in these lines is quite idealistic, and even in developed countries like the US, election results seems to be influenced by faux-problems like marriage of the homosexuals or abortion while ignoring the meaningful challenges and problems, economical or military.
Now, how to educate the people to be in this picture is another question.