Boko Haram InsurgencyNigeria / Lake Chad Basin · 2009-ongoing“Bring this one with care, because the road to the schoolhouse is part of the battlefield.”In Nigeria's northeast, where poverty, corruption and harsh security responses had already thinned trust in the state, an extremist movement gathered around the preaching of Mohammed Yusuf. It spoke against Western-style education and the order that came with it.The lesson the elders kept: When fighters attack schools, they are not only attacking buildings. They are attacking the future's habit of arriving.