How should education play a role in how pverty is alleviated?

Question

Adam Smith proposed that an individual should strive for self-sufficeienct to relieve poverty. Galbraith believes that sometimes an individual should be provided with services to relieve poverty. The Friedmans believe in 'equality of opportunity' for those who have the ability to excel. I believe that in determining how to alleviate poverty, the conditions of the potential and responsibilites of an individual and a community are adherently circumstantial. I am open to all perspectives and hope for a free and open discussion.

Answer 1

Firstly, congratulations on talking about a topic in a well thought out comprehensive manner; quite unusual for YA.

Depends on how you define "education" and "Poverty".

Poverty in the USA would be considered "well off" in many other societies. If you have a TV, Food, Cell Phone, Water, Electricity, Heat, Government Schools, Subsidized housing etc etc etc, than you are doing better than 75% of the rest of the world.

So in the most impoverished countries, "education" would deal with farming, maintaining clean water, disease prevention, family planning etc etc.

In the more developed countries I side with Adam Smith totally. So your contention about being inherently circumstantial rings true.

It would be to the benefit of all the world's population if we could voluntarily help the less developed to become more developed. There, in all likely hood, would be less terrorism, less war and less hatred if we could all bump up to the top level of Maslow's Hierarchy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Answer 2

People should not be discriminated against in providing equality of opportunity because of the nonexistence of what might be undiscovered potential; this will only hinder advancement of an individual and then society

People suffer for many different reasons and are impoverished for almost as many factors.

An indisputable answer will not solve the adversities of poverty, but poverty may be more thoroughly resolved through the evaluation of the needs and potential of an individual.

One solution may be to stop asking how much can an individual achieve in alleviating poverty, but how can we enable this individual to contribute to society in the resolution of their own states of incompetence and lack of resources for advancement

Jesus once said, "Give a man a fish and feed a man for a day, Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime."

Answer 3

I beleive our educators should have a class that they teach about poverty and indiviual success. Since we are all different and have different lifestyles this is a subject that should be taught to everyone. People need to be educated about how to survive a halacaust, a war, hunger, violence, a nuclear bomb, ect. We could be making alot of money one day and loose it all the next . And if someone were born into poverty then that is the responsibility of the parents, teachers and the community to educate and tell these children that they can do ANYTHING they set their minds too . Being poor isnot a bad thing, nor a good thing, but I think if others took time to show compassion and educate the impoverished they would be better off in the future. Being self sufficient is something everyone needs to learn. I think positivity should be something everyone needs to learn also because dwelling on the negative only makes things worse.

Answer 4

A difficult sentence to understand:

"I believe that in determining how to alleviate poverty, the conditions of the potential and responsibilites of an individual and a community are adherently circumstantial."

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Answer 5

givem' 50 bucks for each "A"