More than a million children are affected by the strike over teachers' pay.
This is what happens when governments’ priorities are mixed up.
Governments find the necessary funds to send troops in foreign Countries to wage wars based on false information, but they come across many difficulties in taking care of the very basic needs on the nation: EDUCATION.
Any investment in Education has a long and beneficial effect on the future of the Nation.
13 April 2008
Education for a better world
If a small percentage of the money spent for the “war on terror” would be invested in education, the entire world would be a better and safer place.
The best and the only way to promote democracy is through education, by building schools, giving free access to the less fortunate children.
Educated children will be able to make better choices for their lives, and will not be enticed by any type of religious or political radicals.
It is rather regrettable that during any election campaign “education” seems to be a back-burner issue, instead of being the main subject.
Money invested in education has a lifelong valuable effect on any society.
There are already many rewards in learning: gaining understanding of yourself and others.
Learning is also the route to more commonplace rewards, like getting into good colleges and getting good jobs.
Teachers’ unions should be agents of progress and not stalemate.
Better salaries for teachers will increase the quality of the school system.
The assumption that underlies the project is simple: people respond to incentives.If you want people to do something, you have to make it worth their while.
This assumption drives virtually all of economic theory.
The best and the only way to promote democracy is through education, by building schools, giving free access to the less fortunate children.
Educated children will be able to make better choices for their lives, and will not be enticed by any type of religious or political radicals.
It is rather regrettable that during any election campaign “education” seems to be a back-burner issue, instead of being the main subject.
Money invested in education has a lifelong valuable effect on any society.
There are already many rewards in learning: gaining understanding of yourself and others.
Learning is also the route to more commonplace rewards, like getting into good colleges and getting good jobs.
Teachers’ unions should be agents of progress and not stalemate.
Better salaries for teachers will increase the quality of the school system.
The assumption that underlies the project is simple: people respond to incentives.If you want people to do something, you have to make it worth their while.
This assumption drives virtually all of economic theory.
7 April 2008
Education and the racial divide
Studies show that many poor but bright children do not receive good advice about applying for college and scholarships, or do not receive help after starting college.
In recent years, 11 percent of children from the poorest families, in the USA, have earned college degrees, compared with 53 percent of children from the top fifth.
The researchers found that Hispanic and black Americans were falling behind whites and Asians in earning college degrees, making it harder for them to enter the middle class or higher.
The study highlights the powerful role that college can have in helping people change their station in life. Someone born into a family in the lowest fifth of earners who graduates from college has a 19 percent chance of joining the highest fifth of earners in adulthood and a 62 percent chance of joining the middle class or better.
The authors of the study, by scholars at the Brookings Institution in Washington and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, warned that widening gaps in higher education between rich and poor, whites and minorities, could soon lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.
Economic mobility, the chance that children of the poor or middle class will climb up the income ladder, has not changed significantly over the last three decades.
In recent years, 11 percent of children from the poorest families, in the USA, have earned college degrees, compared with 53 percent of children from the top fifth.
The researchers found that Hispanic and black Americans were falling behind whites and Asians in earning college degrees, making it harder for them to enter the middle class or higher.
The study highlights the powerful role that college can have in helping people change their station in life. Someone born into a family in the lowest fifth of earners who graduates from college has a 19 percent chance of joining the highest fifth of earners in adulthood and a 62 percent chance of joining the middle class or better.
The authors of the study, by scholars at the Brookings Institution in Washington and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, warned that widening gaps in higher education between rich and poor, whites and minorities, could soon lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.
Economic mobility, the chance that children of the poor or middle class will climb up the income ladder, has not changed significantly over the last three decades.
2 April 2008
Respect is an important ingredient in education
The respect of the boy to the teacher will make him easy to guide, and so the question of punishment will never come up.
Therefore one great cause of fear which at present poisons all the relations between the teacher and his pupils will vanish.
When the teacher has learned to look upon his work as dedicating him to the service of humanity, then he will become part of the great “Teaching Department of the world”.
We could all argue that many children could not be managed in this way.
The answer is these children have been already marked by bad treatment. Nonetheless, they must be slowly improved by greater patience and constant attention.
This is the only and sure way to succeed when tried.
Living in this atmosphere of respect during school hours, the boy will become a better son and a better brother at home, and will bring home with him a feeling of strength, instead of coming home, as he generally does, depressed and tired.
When he, in turn, becomes the head of a household, he will fill it with the respect in which he has been brought up.
Therefore one great cause of fear which at present poisons all the relations between the teacher and his pupils will vanish.
When the teacher has learned to look upon his work as dedicating him to the service of humanity, then he will become part of the great “Teaching Department of the world”.
We could all argue that many children could not be managed in this way.
The answer is these children have been already marked by bad treatment. Nonetheless, they must be slowly improved by greater patience and constant attention.
This is the only and sure way to succeed when tried.
Living in this atmosphere of respect during school hours, the boy will become a better son and a better brother at home, and will bring home with him a feeling of strength, instead of coming home, as he generally does, depressed and tired.
When he, in turn, becomes the head of a household, he will fill it with the respect in which he has been brought up.
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