Before his sojourn into politics, Ukraine’s new president played a teacher on television who accidentally gets elected president. Once he became the real president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent his new deputies to a one-week crash course to “get educated” and learn about strategy, public policy, legislation and their responsibility as lawmakers.
This step and, ironically, his choice to play the role of a teacher in his past life as an actor, may be coincidental, but it also might signal that Mr. Zelenskyy recognizes the indispensable role education plays. (It doesn’t hurt that his father is a professor either.)