Jexy said:
You do realize I'm speaking for others, not myself, right? And how do people learn to invest? You realize most inner city schools don't even know what the word means? You talk like this is common sense, but you learned it from somewhere, whether your parents taught it to you just by being responsible people, or they gave you access to the internet early on, or you had the free time to think of these things and didn't have to take care of your siblings, etc... whatever it is, you learned it somewhere. How's some kid going to even know to look for the Khan Academy? How does he know to do something that he didn't know existed? This stuff is common sense to us, but not to them. It has to be taught somehow, but there are already enough screwed up generations to expect it to be taught by their parents. You think they'll learn this stuff if all their parents have on TV are MTV and Jerry Springer? Or would they have a better chance if it were fox business and the discovery channel? Dumb people raise dumb kids and dumb people have more kids than smart people. It's a bad cycle, and they clearly aren't educating themselves, since it's just getting worse... so instead of just calling them idiots, they need to be taught. |
I learned how to invest by my own power and understanding. I grew up in poverty. My dad was never around until I was 12 when he got off the road from truck driving and got a job as a midnight stocker at Wal-Mart. I didn't have the internet, much less a PC until I was older and it was purchased by my grandma, as my parents had very little money. I learned it from some where - just like every one else has the same opportunity. If you regulate the poverty mindset and mentality as to being a never-ending cycle, then the logcal outcome should be that no one has any sort of social mobility, which is an outright falsehood, and any and all data will argue that is not the case provided there are free markets and freedom of information.
How is a kid going to look for Khan Academy? Well, he's not going to be on Facebook all day or texing friends all day. He would be disciplined to learn and understand the world, rather than be satiated by mass media. I didn't know about Khan Academy until recently. But I learned about it because I am always interested in learning - something my parents didn't teach me, but at least pointed me in the right direction.
I agree that the uneducated need taught. I don't believe it will be done by our current school system which is an abject failure and proof that government cannot be trusted with something as vauable as education. To end the cycle, you need discipline. To instill discipline, schools need the latitude to institute it if parents are unwilling or unable to institute it. Of course, the answer (to me) is vouchers, which is something that many object to because they want to continue the hand-to-mouth exsistence of our current education structure which focuses on keeping the status quo.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
