It takes (mostly) parents instilling an interest in learning for a child
to become educated. This begins when the child is an infant, by reading
and talking to the child so s/he can learn language and all that
implies. Then books, lots of books. By the time children reach the
"education" system it is too late to do much in the way of "educating"
them, you might be able to "teach" them something but that is not
preparing them to learn on their own and to become truly "educated."
There is a vast difference between teaching and educating, bu the
schools can do neither well if the parents have not prepared the
children for the experience.
Unfortunately this has a disparate effect on certain segments of society
wherein having a child or 3 or 5 with no father in the household, and a
complete lack of any sort of effective parenting, creates yet another
generation of ineducable children, who will become just like their
"parents." It is unfortunate that this is now most prevalent in the
black population (70% children born to single parent, no father in the
picture) but applies equally to a lower socioeconomic white demographic
though not as prevalent. The culture of single parents, low
expectations, no job opportunities, poor education/teaching, attitude
toward school, etc. has been aided and abetted by our tax money for at
least 2 generations now, and the result is apparent in crime, etc. and a
continuing drain on society.
No amount of money is going to fix a cultural problem.
--R
On 12/23/11 11:32 AM, G Mann wrote:
he concern issue is "how do we best educate our children" as a society.
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