Old SC - On creating schools to offset poverty. - 1

by Emily Nghiem

Sorry i misunderstood. I still respect your realism. Yes we will always have "workers in training" like we will always have toddlers in preschool and teenagers in high school. That doesnt mean to abuse the dependent lower classes of social development. Look at our school system and academic tiers in class levels. Surely we can use the campus model to organize communities in campuses to provide and protect student interests and rights while they work their way thru school to become independent workers owners mgrs and leaders. Pace Universal already build schools to counteract poverty and trafficking. If one woman from India can do that, what can two or three women like me or Luna do by working in teams.

Revolutionary maybe, but not impossible. Its already being done and just needs to be replicated to reach more ppl. www.earnedamnesty.org

Thanks for the reminder of the thinking we are up against that doesnt see the change coming which is already taking root in modelprograms waiting to be replicated along the border and worldwide. Even one of the Tibetan monks was working with Chinese govt to set up more schools, and schools are getting built in other poor areas of Southeast Asia and Africa despite battles and plagues that obstruct these efforts. So everyone knows that education is the key to managing the worlds populations.

This is a quote from Emily in another thread. In it she discusses the idea of creating schools to offset poverty. I think this is a great solution to a big problem, so I'd like to treat to give this idea it's own thread, and discuss it in greater detail.

Emily, I can understand how educating a population can create opportunity, but in places like Africa where resources are scarce, will education ever be enough? I don't think it's a realistic solution when we consider poverty stricken locations that are a result of a lack of abundance, or an oppressive government.

Any thoughts on this?

Luna

Hi Luna I think the answers and model programs for this could fill up a whole website or network of websites. Probably your next big job!

1. If you look at model programs that already exist, the point is to empower people to solve their own problems. Some are medical teaching and service programs. Some are daycare and dayschool programs. Some are microlending and business training. So the point IS to overcome the oppression and obstruction/waste of resources.(and yes, there are successful medical programs in Africa based on breaking the cycle of poverty to reduce the demand so it isnt an endless b l ackhole. One woman from Nigeria proposes to build a network of teaching hospitals in every country in Africa to provide education and services combined. This is a finite goal. Totally doable and yet its effect with be on multiple scales.)

One of the biggest myths to overcone is fear of scarcity. Once ppl learn how to build a brick business or a farm coop using their own labor plus mgmt skills they can run their own operations.

There are so many examples of fair trade coops, and microlending programs, architecture for humanity projects. All of the work on a similar basis of teaching ppl to be independent on a sustainable basis.

2. Here is the model for reforming public housing in the Freedmens Town historic district as a sustainable campus to train families in getting off welfare instead of relying on govt

Http://www.houstonprogressive.org/campus94.html

This same model can be used to address whatever PROBLEM a govt or nation is facing so they have motivation to adopt such a solution

1. Health care reform by embedding public health services into student internships and residencies to pay for education at the same time

2. Prison reforms and immigration reforms by setting up work study programs in a secure or cirrectional program to invest labor as resitution for past violations into manufacturing or construction jobs so ppl earn back their rights of citizens after committing crimes or even govt or corporate abuses to counteract oppressive govt fraud

3. Trafficking and sweatshop factories turned into safe campuses with housing jobs and services combined to afford families a livable environment even if the training wages are lower or ppl are bartering for their food and shelter until the economy grows more stable. This is still better than save labor and abuses happening now.

Each community or country has different resources or shortages to address, so every solution will be different.

The key is finding the leaders and programs already organizing and connect the resources where they can flow and be invested in sustainable development. The problem now is resources wasted on conflict, on war and cost of crime, on handouts that dry up etc. If we build the sustainable business model first, then the charities schools and govts can fund themselves instead of fighting to control taxationon income and wealth. Instead of forcing redistribution of wealth which doesnt solve the problem of poverty, the key is equal distribution and access to knowledge of laws and business/property mgmt. Where the ppl in govt can still be in charge but without oppressing anyone. The popuations can be organized in schools and classes so everyone can access training and expetience to move up.

We just change our perception and can organize resources from there without political competition for power. That is part of the education too.

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On creating schools to offset poverty.