My Grandfather was an academic from 1943 to early 1980's and he had a lot of people in is network including ministers at times and stuff like that.
once he called me years ago , i was 13-14 years old and he told me something that he said that i would never forget.
It was about the mentality of our politicians.
We have a university in Pakistan which is one of the largest in Asia & one of its campuses was supposed to be built in our area which was an undeveloped one.
My grand father spoken to one of the ministers at that time and urged him to get this process through and make it happen but he was socked what the minister replied.
He replied "If these people (Pakistanis) got educated then you tell me sir who is going to prepare my Huqqa ?"
He himself was a Cambridge university graduate , it depressed my Grandfather so much that he never forgot it and he took up the role of education people as much as he could and he ended up serving for 46 years as an academic. He helped 100s of young folks get educated and join army that they could become Independent at least and bring new ideas. He advised me to keep it mind and get better education and educate others which i am doing