The Irony of Education

So many of the orphans here are sponsored, and some not, the sponsored ones past grade 8 go typically on to a boarding school nearby.  So I've met a few of these and they have told me how much they study in Form 2 or Form 4...  And they ask me how much I studied and how hard I though it was.  I tell them honestly high school in the US is not hard, at least not for me.  They study like we would if we majored in something hard in college (maybe even harder than civil engineering), committing 16 or so hours of their day to class and studying and then receiving strick punishment when doing wrong.  But then I have met some who have finished Form 5, even with good scores and they have a hard time finding a good job, or a job at all.  I asked my mom if she thought school here was harder, and she said maybe it is. How can it be that us in the US who are many times slackers can get a job here or there, someone hooks you up with something even pays you a decently hourly without completing your diploma.  So then you have a country that is developing and striving past its corruption with a large population of young adults that are educated and know how to work hard with their minds.  But then what do they do? Their education and ingenuity prompt some of them into some enterprising business, but maybe not them all and what if you are an orphan on top of that with no real family to connect you to a business or give you shelter? I guess I don't get it, other than we most definitely have many blessings that we don't even account for.