Education and investment represent the main pillars of economic development, and by tracking the path of these two indicators in Iraq, it is clear the size of the missed opportunities that the country has witnessed since the beginning of the eighties of the last century and over four decades, during which the country witnessed external and internal wars that led to the depletion of its material and human re-sources. Between developing countries and the countries of the world is very large, an entire generation has lost the fruits of development that was supposed to move it to high levels of productivity and scientific progress, but today it lives in the lowest ranks of knowledge and economic progress, and is even less advanced and less educated than the previous generation, and this is completely contrary to economic theories of economic growth.