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I mostly agree, and especially with the point about the social capital. But it's more than that. In this country, education pays (which is not true in all count
by cema 17y ago
I mostly agree, and especially with the point about the social capital. But it's more than that. In this country, education pays (which is not true in all countries) but is expensive, and the best kind of education, self-education, requires a personal discipline and a certain type of learning-loving culture with which one should really be imbued in childhood. Poor families often lack this.
This is only one point, and maybe not the most important one.
- oldgregg 17y agoYeah, that's spot on, it's a cultural issue. We've dumped increasing amounts of money to traditional education model to almost nil effect. But how do you change a culture that glorifies sports and celebrities and openly mocks anything related to learning? So it's an "education" issue but not in the programmatic way that most people assume but in this broader systemic way can't be fixed with money alone.