If there's one take-away of the past few years -- it's that it's a practical and moral imperative to invest as much as we can in education. Education is the precondition for civilization.
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Increase education, and you'll get to the next degree of civilization in 1-2 generations. Cut education, and you'll be going backwards. The cost is steep
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Few ideas have done as much damage as the notion that education is merely about the acquisition of marketable skills. Education is the vehicle through which civilization propagates itself through time, from one generation to the next.
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Can't agree more education is the key to unlocking human potential. Both as an individual and more importantly as a civilization.
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There’s the rub. The cost to whom? Backwards when? People want to spend their effort on their own gratification before death. How to convince them to care about a future they will never see?
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