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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
dc_dux said nothing about more funding for higher education in his post. He said we should spend more money on early childhood education (which is preschool/similar programs), which is fine and dandy on the one hand, but on the other, we should put more money into higher education so that the children in early childhood ed can have the best teachers possible at one of the most critical learning junctures in their lives.
He's saying that if we give people good educations and teach them to be good citizens starting at the earliest possible age, we'll end up with lower prison populations over the long-term, regardless of whether or not they go on to higher education.
It's like building a house--if you don't give the house a strong foundation, and it starts to fall, it doesn't really matter what the roof is like, does it? You've got to start from the ground up, which means starting with early childhood education.
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so, in other words, we want to throw money at the problem? Kind of like those IBM commercials about 7 years ago?
there is no need to throw more money at the problem. All of the fundamental pieces of 'equipment' are there for good education. Whats needed is good parenting to show why a good education is necessary. Parents need to encourage their children to take advantage of the education that is there.
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