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To: Sam who wrote (292311)	2/24/2016 10:43:04 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540820

Well I don't intend to waste my time trying to pick that one apart. I hope you are not implying that education is useless to the poor? I'm sure you are not. I wonder what the thesis of that study was and what the other variables and context was? But I don't wonder it enough to look into it. Every study I've ever seen shows a direct correlation between income and years of education. That rise in income had as much or more to do with the development of the mind than it did any degrees a person earned. And for that study to have any importance at all, it would have to deny that development of the mind is worth no more than an undeveloped mind. And who wants to defend that one? In my mind, the two great cultures have been the ancient Greeks and the Jews. Because both cultures understood long ago the importance of education. The Jews learned 1000 years ago, that the key to their survival was education and it is been the underpinning of their culture ever sense. I know I don't need to tell you this, it is a rhetorical comment. The Japanese were bombed into oblivion in the second world war, they live on a rock, and they have a difficult language, and are isolated, yet 30 years after the second world war they were the second largest economy in the world, followed by Germany who was the third. The two most educated countries on earth. My old professor friend Dick Nelson used to tell me every time he saw a Japanese kid come into his class he knew that was in A. that is pretty much true of the Jewish students as well. In 1967, I watched a couple million Jews not just defend themselves, but quickly began to conquer the hundred million Persians and Arabs that attacked them. They did so because that tiny little country had as much or more education than the entire rest of the Middle East, IMO. <<Policymakers on the left and right often tout education as the bridge to help poor kids make their way up the income ladder -- people with more education make more money. But striking new research from the Brookings Institution shows that simply sending more kids to college won't fix income inequality: As it turns out, a college degree is worth a lot less, earnings-wise, to poor kids than to rich ones.