| mrstickball said: 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. |
For every good story like that though, there are 99 more that don't end up that way. You have to realize that.
And your last paragraph says it all. They need to be taught, which the current system won't do, and they need discipline, which the current system and way of life for their parents won't do.
BOOM! FACE KICK!
