Please light the candle for education

The Dot Com bubble. The Housing bubble. The Great Recession. What’s next? Inequality! You can make a difference.

Nobel Memorial prize winner Robert Shiller talks to Charlie Rose about inequality.

The growing gap between the rich and the poor is alarming. This does not necessarily mean that the rich are more productive than the poor. It simply means that the economic system favors capital. The rich have somehow amassed so much capital that it is sustaining itself. The capital in America may be functioning as a security blanket, but it is certainly not being used to bring about a happy and productive society.

In this extremely competitive America, a poor person gets blamed for being lazy and unproductive. But a rich person is not necessarily being productive either. He may be just as lazy and unproductive because the system is taking care of his capital. So, culturally and educationally, the rich seems to be as destitute as the poor. The education system has long failed in America, because, today, looking at the situation in Washington, the blind seem to be leading the blind.

There is nothing wrong with a system which makes capital grow; but there is everything wrong with a system that does not allow that capital to be used for increasing the potential and productivity of people in the society, but only as a security blanket for a few.

The people in America are struggling and giving up hope in increasing numbers for a productive and satisfying lifestyle. The current system in America is doing nothing to help people achieve their individual potential.

We need to educate people, help increase their potential, and make them more productive.

Let’s have a grass-roots education revolution! 

Let’s just take our focus away from capital for a moment and put attention on increasing the human resources in America. The best method to increase security is to educate people around us into thinking more rationally. That was my reason for starting Free Math Tutoring.

Currently, when I go to Starbucks and Barnes & Nobles on weekends, I set up my laptop, and I have on the back of the laptop pasted in big letters, “PROJECT RECOVER AMERICA – ASK FOR FREE MATH TUTORING.” I am already tutoring three students free.

If it is education that is going to help this country recover from its current down trend, then let’s each one of us start offering help in that direction. Don’t worry about what to educate people on. Just educate them on what you do best.

We need a grass-roots movement to forward education. The best education is to help a person learn to think systematically on his own. That can be done through any subject. I do it through math. It is a lot of fun.

I always encourage those around me to get involved in education if only as a tutor. My wife does a great job educating her “little sister”.

Our country is facing a huge situation. When one is actively doing something about that situation, no matter how little it  may seem, it makes one feel better.

By helping others learn, a person also learns himself or herself. It is a win-win situation. So, let’s start doing it. Do not wait for help to come from somewhere else.

So, let’s start an education revolution using a grass-roots effort.  When we get going help will come.

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