education is the main key to better future...

Dear Rob,
Thanks for the kind note. I am much more delighted to know that you are having an online course. It is so inspiring.
Your statement about the Hazaras' interest to education and a better standard of life is right. They feel that education is the main key to their better future. They don't have access in high position of authority. They lack enough economic facilities to get into successful competition in the market. They have suffered a lot from their military resistance. Now the only means which seems rational and affordable for them is education. I don't know if it would be referred to their cultural sense too. Hazaras are mostly noted with tow peculiarities: one, they can easily get the points and messages. Two, they can easily get together and become organized. Whenever there has been a good sensible message, they have absorbed that. I can experience this in my school and civic activities too. For six years after the fall of the fall of the Taliban, we had a co-education system in the school and boys and girls attended mixed classes with no any negative reaction from the families. The families used to send their daughters even at the ages of 18 and 20 to start just from grade one in a class where half of the classmates were boys. When the ministry insisted to separate classes according to genders, we maintained some of our mixed programs and activities and we can see the good result of their interactions in their mentality and psychology.
Now it is interesting to know that in the south, you pay your tax to build a school for the people who burn it just the other day. Now, they even ask for more money to not only rebuild the burnt school but also to guard it! While in the Hazara regions, there has been the least assistance, however, the people do not have a single negative reaction. You can easily make a foot tour throughout Hazara region with no any single fear of being intimidated, let alone to be harmed. I have tens of western fellows, men and women, who visit the school in Kabul with no any bodyguard or pre-arranged security. Last year, an American lady for the American University of Afghanistan used to come to school regularly every Thursday to have a reading circle with the students. She never said any word to having been scared of anything.