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Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.