Originally posted by deftoned989: In my opinion, racism (to name one of MANY problems with societies as a whole) could easily be eliminated (as far as humanly possible) through education.
Low levels of education = More competition to survive = Finding a scapegoat for your circumstances
If we could only realize the importance of education and pump a shatload more money into school systems across the nation we'd be much better off, but oh well, thank god for bureaucracy
Ignorance is the enemy, not individual people!
You have to put forth effort to be educated. You can pump all the money you want into it, but if the students don't want it, its not going to sink in.
BTW, education is the answer to 90% of the world's problems...
Speaking as someone who teaches in a high school in the ghetto that is 97% African American... We are called on the carpet DAILY about the "acheivement gap" between blacks and whites. I have seen very intelligent black students...and white students that are dumb as dirt. I personally try to teach every student that comes into my class, but I can not DO IT FOR THEM. Too many of my students respond with...."I'm not copying these math notes, that's too much work." WTF? These are both white and black students saying this. What I want to know is how anyone, of any race, expects to succeed without working hard at it? Too many people look for the easy way out, or just want to do enough to get by, regardless of race. So what does the eduacation system do....blame the teachers, instead of the students that only come to school once a week to sell their drugs. We currently have about a 70% attendance rate. That means, on any given day, 30% of my students are not here. So when they don't acheive, why is that my fault? Sorry for the rant, but seeing students throw away one of their only keys to a good future (education) really bothers me.
Scott
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