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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
If we are truely interested in improving things here, shouldn't we focus on our own educational values to improve the system and encourage and reward those who seek to enter higher levels of education in science so they can contribute to our own society vs allowing a flood of others in to do the job we should do?
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My perspective is evolving with what I am seeing working with urban kids from deprived backgrounds. It came out this week that the new regulations for Head Start, which are apparently well thought out, are going to be expensive to implement. This is going to cost a lot of seats because no money was set aside for it. We have a lot of American born kids cycling back into the poverty of their ancestors. Some of these families have been working the system forever, other's just have no idea how to work out of poverty, while others are doing what needs to be done working, going to school, and raising kids as best they can. My perspective is that the children of the poor should be put in the position of getting an equalized opportunity if they are to ever exercise liberty. We have a large segment of our population who could be educated to the jobs of the future.
Gates is looking for a stop gap to protect his industry now, but I don't see how we can do this stuff on a permanent basis. In an ideal world, we'd have open borders and a free market but our market isn't free. We seem to want socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. That isn't sustainable. If we're going to protect investors from themselves, we can hardly justify throwing Head Start 3 and 4 year olds out of a program that feeds them and enriches some pretty desperate lives.