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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (64344)	10/27/2002 12:29:59 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, it's an interesting article. Not surprising, though. I don't think there's any doubt that education has a saluatory effect reducing violence in most people. Of course, it's not a 100% correlation; some of those in the prision system who get college degrees will still go back to led violent lives -- but it's a strong correlation. Another strong correlation is size of family. More educated people today tend to have smaller families. Of course, this has a quite negative (IMO) social consequence that the number of people from less educated families grows much faster than the number of people from highly educated families. Of course, education doesn't necessarily make you a good person, but it tends to assist in Neo's principle of socialization, and it is certainly an economic benefit. Overall, a well educated populance is likely to build a more humane and productive society than a less educated populance. Which is why the increasing percentage shift toward a less educated world population is a disturbing trend. Of course, there is a counter argument to be made that this is all just elitism. But I look at the leaders whom I respect in this world, and most of them have been well educated people.