Education is an investment - not an expense

Sorry for the long, long, long break everyone. I don't have much time or inclination right now to deal with politics, but I wanted to share something.

Here is just a short part from an article I wanted to share.

A world leader in education

The U.S. was the first country to offer every young person the opportunity to obtain a free public secondary education at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century and reaped tremendous economic rewards for doing so. 

By 1910 only nine percent of people in the U.S. had finished high school, and yet the U.S. was already ahead of all other nations in terms of post-elementary enrollment rates. The U.S. economy boomed during the early 20th Century “teen” years and the 1920s as a result. By 1935, 40 percent of U.S. citizens had finished high school, and less than a decade later the U.S. could boast having the best educated workforce in the world. 

The U.S. also led the world in the number of people earning post-secondary college and university degrees after World War II, when the G.I. bill made it possible for thousands of returning veterans off to obtain a higher education, fueling yet another period of economic expansion in the U.S. in the 1950s and ’60s. The large cohort of U.S. Baby Boomers began going on to college as a matter of course in the late ’60s, and by the end of the 1970s a college degree was viewed by most people in the U.S. as the single most important factor in obtaining – not just a good job – but a career, and an economically secure life. 

Now, in the high-tech, globally inter-connected world of the 21st Century, obtaining postsecondary education and training is quickly becoming even more essential for individual economic achievement, and to ensure the success of entire nations and economies. Jobs and investment capital in today’s markets flow to those countries that have the best educated people.

Read the rest of the article here.

This is the problem. When we invested in our education and educated our people, we became the dominate world leader in the world. What is happening now? Well, we look at education as an expense that we should spend less and less on. If you are curious as to why we are getting our butts handed to us when it comes to global competitiveness, this is the answer.

Stop viewing education as an expense, look at it as an investment in our future. Unless you just want to keep people dumb and un-educated so you can control them better, there is zero excuse for this lack of investment - NONE!

-More to come later....

Travis