With Democracy edu the costs could be a fraction, below even the 10% ($8,000). And all the rest of the cash ocean sloshing about EDUCATION -- That could all be shovelled back into massive tax cuts. For those so inclined, you can get essentially an M.I.T. education via the Internet. Cost: zip. [Politics This Week - April 7, 2001]
It was styled ‘The Tech / Summit' and we find ourselves back on Capitol Hill. [Jun 14, 1999] All were there, Gates and Co. Greenspan was there, he spoke of America "Displaying a remarkable run of economic growth, which appears to have its roots in on-going technology." But it was for IBM's Lou Gerstner to offer this stark comment; "If there is one factor that can dead-end (for the US) this new world of economic opportunity ..." You've guessed it -- education! He further warned of growing inequalities and what this might mean for those without a graduation.
According to figures, in St. Louis, Missouri ‘More than 61% did NOT graduate.’ They've got to graduate, but can't, not until there is a system that leans toward them -- and without reducing standards. Inevitably, today the State centrally controls just about all curricula, and whose steel bands grip ever tighter, and all the time. Often this is under such slogans as "standards," so there is little time left from for anything else. As a consequence, this works doubly against, and is truly injurious of such fragile things as culture. And what actual qualification does the graduate have? “They just go to the Institute to say that they have a diploma,” So, Anotoly Kononov, Merchanskoye, Kuban, Russia tells us. He was speaking of “useless” newly qualified agronomists [Economist - Jul 21, 2001] That is what we do have with the Democracy framework, here evolving. I believe that it is the best in the world for doing just that.
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