My Essay Topic

• Research Topic: Is Education essential for National Development?
• Why important?: I am very interested in how countries were developed, and I want to know whether education played an essential role for the development. I would take a look at the issue taking a specific example of a successful country.
• Why is it interesting to me, and what the connection to me?: I have been thinking why developing countries have lagged behind in development, and what the causes were. I made a hypothesis that lack of education must be one main cause of it. 
• What questions do I have?: 1) What Education has on National Development 2) What kind of issues education can resolve 3) One (or more) country/region successful in development by education 4) Limitation of Education for National Development 5) The next countries that would take advantages of Education for their development.
• English Sources for this: 1) Education, skills training, and national development : experience and lessons from Singapore / Linda Low. 2) not yet