Fixing Education: "Between one-third and one-half of the school buildings in the United States are somewhere between dilapidated and flat falling apart. "
If we want a better economy and a better society, we'd better do something about public education in the US. It's a disaster.
The reasons why are easy to find. Poor teachers. Poor facilities. Poor administration and leadership. And coupled with all of these has been a starvation diet financially.
Well, guess what. Like Anita Roddick says, "if you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Kids are intelligent. We're teaching them to be dumb in the US. And what is the result? We need to import skilled workers to keep the economy going. We build jails to deal with the socially deprived. We spend 10 times as much to warehouse some of the product of our educational system in jail as we did to educate them.
If we can afford a $40 Billion war and $48 Billion a year to keep an army in Iraq, we can afford to educate our own kids. If we can afford pre-emptive war, why aren't we pre-emptively educating our kids. That will pre-empt sending our kids to jail, and produce a very healthy return on our investment. And gues what. We'll save lives and cut crime too.
So why aren't we doing it?

- posted by geoff @ #