Hi everyone, John Farmer de la Torre and Showkat Nanda here for our last day taking over Echo/Sight. Happy Easter! Thanks again for liking our work so far! Please add us to your social media feeds: IG/TW@farmerdelatorre, FB@johnfarmerdelatorre. IG/TW@showkatnanda, FB@showkatnanda123 Today we see sisters Alicia Hutsell, foreground, and her sister Pam, flex their strength in tiny Graff, Missouri. Pam has chosen to make a living using her body as she has shunned formal education and insists upon living in the state's rural ghetto. Alicia has chosen to leave the countryside to pursue a college education in journalism. See #theothercountrythemovie Showkat shows us a group of young Kashmiri high school students sitting in a classroom. They are intelligent and bright girls who talk about science, technology, religion, and politics with great confidence. Today, many are doctors, engineers, and college graduates. #echosight #doubleexposure #montage #collab #farmerdelatorre #showkatnanda #missouri #kashmir #empowerment #education DISCUSSION: J: Could we talk about women's education and the untapped potential of more than 50 percent of the planet's population and talent pool? S: Why not! While interviewing these girls, they said that their veil is protection, not subjugation, and it doesn't hinder their progress as educated, forward-looking, ambitious students! J: You brought up the veil. It is a complicated issue. So is the education of women in some parts of conservative Muslim countries. S: It might be a complicated issue in the Middle East but in Kashmir, women don a veil by choice. It's seen as a very normal thing culturally. J: Right. Here we have distrust among many about the value of education even though it's widely available. From this doubt has grown illiteracy and the inability to distinguish truth from propaganda. And we no longer educate to produce wise people. We do it to create meat machines, some for hard labor, some for corporations. S: It's started happening all over the world. Education these days is more job-oriented rather than for an overall development of a person. Like you said, machines!