Tonight I went to a church and helped put together food packages for hungry children. Personally, I ended up putting labels on the bags that the food is packaged in. This left me a lot of time to talk and get to know a little bit about the people I was working with. We talked about lots of different things from hockey to hospice care, and in the process I learned a lot about more about the world than I thought I would. One of the women I was speaking to was originally from Italy and so we compared the different educational and healthcare systems. It made me wonder what the actual best systems for the two are. Clearly the US education system has a lot of problems and the almost always free college tuition seems like a plus. But the unemployment rate in Italy is around 40% because everyone has an education, but no one has a job. So what is the best system? I’m pretty sure that no one actually knows, but I’d be curious to find out about more options and how the current systems in both countries can be improved.