Education for the Elite

Jamaluddin, a student at Kabul University, wanted to go to the American University but could not afford the fees. He is bitter that what he calls “the offspring of drug smugglers and warlords” can take advantage of the high-quality facilities that he is denied. “Their fathers burned our schools during the jihad and war, and made us illiterate,” he said. “But now their sons and daughters study in modern universities.”