Thursday, September 21, 2017

Education and poverty

Education Can't Solve Poverty—So Why Do We Keep Insisting That It Can? By Jennifer Berkshire ( via Chaitanya Diwadkar). Certiainly not overall but at an indicdual leve. As Kenneth Arrow said long ago : "In a system where virtually all resources are available for a price, economic power can be translated into political power by channels too obvious for mention. In a capitalist society, economic power is very unequally distributed, and hence democratic government is inevitably something of a sham.” 

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