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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (117820)	4/6/2016 12:34:43 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 217795

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant You are making a huge mistake. You're right to worry about ghettos and gang banger's. But you are not seeing that education is like alchemy which can turn gang banger's into responsible citizens who work toward a just and well functioning society. I was at our local community college for two years. There were so many gang bangers in that college. I was the president of one fraternity and the leader of the biggest gang in Richmond, The Shockers, was the president of another fraternity. When I was in high school I went with his sister and then broke up with her and the entire gang of the shockers was on the hunt for me. For a year I couldn't go downtown safely. Eventually he did catch up with me, when I was with another girl. I was at her house and they were so bold they came up to the front door. They wanted me to come out. Her big brother was there and felt compelled to offer to come out with me, but I told him no just stay inside. So I went outside and talked to him, which was a little scary-lol. but, they didn't beat me up; and then later when I met up with him again in college, he apologized to me. Two of the big gang members in my town went on to UC Berkeley and one of them became an accountant. Where I got that idea. I saw so many people that I knew personally that were gang banger's when I was in high school turned into perfectly responsible citizens when they started attending the community college. Almost all of us went on and transferred to four-year colleges, many of us went on to graduate school and a bunch of us became teachers and professors. Few of us failed. We almost all made it through with a fair amount of ease i.e. plenty of time for parties and kissing the girls. I think it is impossible for society to invest more into education then they will get back in increased productivity and reduced crime. The smartest countries today like Denmark actually pay their people to go to college. Many feel Denmark is the most wonderful country on earth for lack of a better word. Germany college is free and they are an economic powerhouse that also is loaded with unions and workers rights. Because when you have an educated populace you can increase your productivity and distribute the wealth in such a way that people don't have to work as hard as they do in this country where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few plutocrats. I don't know why people don't understand how powerful education is to helping people live responsible nonviolent lives. They also live longer, are more healthy and earn more money. And that is a 100% positive correlation.