Education Does Not Cure Poverty – It Cures Ignorance
What good is an education?
Will it get you money? Will it make you rich?
No. Not really.
And that’s one of the biggest problems with American public school policy of the last 15 years. It misunderstands the purpose of the very thing it purports to promote.
Poverty is skyrocketing. It’s been on the rise for at least three decades, but since the economy collapsed in 2008, the ranks of the poor have swollen like an untreated wound left to fester and rot.
We could be doing something about that. We could be working on a jobs package – on something to get people back to work. Instead we crowd around unemployment data and clap each other on the back because on paper it looks like we’ve overcome this obstacle.
Unfortunately, we haven’t.
Since President Barack Obama took office, there have been less people out of workthan during the disastrous Bush years. However, most new jobs created since the Education Does Not Cure Poverty – It Cures Ignorance | gadflyonthewallblog:
