Good for Visioneering Wichita for forming a new group focused on adult basic education. The Literate Community Strategic Alliance, which meets today for the first time, will plan how best to deliver adult education services such as language, reading and math instruction and preparation for high school equivalency testing. Sedgwick County Commissioner Tim Norton, who is spearheading the effort, told The Eagle editorial board that this work benefits the entire community, because raising the intellectual capital of our citizens better positions us to grow in an increasingly knowledge-based economy.
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And to what majority of the racial groups will The Literate Community Strategic Alliance be focusing on?Which meets today for the first time, will plan how best to deliver adult education services such as language, reading and math instruction and preparation for high school equivalency testing.
I thought that we already have a program in place conducted by the USD 259, a program that cost a great deal of tax money to the already burden-down school tax paying home owners.What is wrong with the present program?
Many communities have such an Adult Education program going, and it really helps a lot of people.
Maybe if Wichita had a newspaper that peddled something besides bigotry and intolerance ignorance wouldn’t be such a problem.
Intellectual capital either exists or it doesn’t. You can’t just conjure it up out of thin air, but I am sure that the wishers and hopers will waste time and resources to try.
After reading this blog for a number of years, the intellectual capital needs to be raised a loooooong way.
Wow, all of The Eagle’s usual fans must still be sleeping off the cross burning.
As long as stupid people breed, there will be stupid people. You can’t encourage, enable, coerce, or force people to be intelligent.
I think a lot of the problem in Wichita is that higher education simply is not a value. For example, my husband is an engineer at Boeing where they will pay for any worker to get a degree or take classes in anything they want. Yet, when my husband expressed interested in going for his Master’s his colleagues expressed disgust with “those people” who have Master’s and were derogatory towards education in general.
If those in Wichita with the best jobs available here view education so dirisively , what hope do those that are at the lower rungs of education have at wanting and getting an education?
No, once a certain intellectual level is reached, a person gains a perception of where he is and how much better it is in other places, and leaves!
So will this new project be paid for with public money? with a County Commissioner and Visioneering Wichita involved, very likely. The rest of us were already forced to pay for the squandered education opportunity for these folks.
The program must include a way for these adults to pay their own way, either up-front or later.
“If those in Wichita with the best jobs available here view education so dirisively , what hope do those that are at the lower rungs of education have at wanting and getting an education?
Posted by: PW | August 27, 2007 at 10:34 AM”
I think your hubby just encounted a small set of jaded, bitter people. Probably in their subconcious mind, if they can’t obtain something, no one else should either.I hope he decides to pursue an MS
I don’t know any professional in Wichita who doesn’t value education. Talk about a dumb generalization.People don’t get an education because they don’t care or it’s too hard for them. I know adults who can’t even read, and throwing all the money in the world at them won’t get them into a classroom. You can’t force someone to be literate if they don’t want to be.There will always be those who are satisfied to live hand to mouth, because that’s where they feel safe and maybe it’s all they’ve ever known. And who are they that think those people have got to change? Isn’t that pushing your standards onto some else just because that’s what YOU think they should do? Maybe we need to learn to live and let live..afterall everyone has a different idea about what success is and is not for themselves. What ever happened to the idea that each human is a unique individual..responsible for making their way in the world however they choose?
I don’t know any professional in Wichita who doesn’t value education. Talk about a dumb generalization.People don’t get an education because they don’t care or it’s too hard for them. I know adults who can’t even read, and throwing all the money in the world at them won’t get them into a classroom. You can’t force someone to be literate if they don’t want to be.There will always be those who are satisfied to live hand to mouth, because that’s where they feel safe and maybe it’s all they’ve ever known. And who are they that think those people have got to change? Isn’t that pushing your standards onto some else just because that’s what YOU think they should do? Maybe we need to learn to live and let live..afterall everyone has a different idea about what success is and is not for themselves. What ever happened to the idea that each human is a unique individual..responsible for making their way in the world however they choose?
Careful Mary, you sound like a Libertarian.
I just think people have the right to be what they want to be without having to apoligize for it. Who decided how people should live they’re lives in the first place? If I wanted to be a car mechanic with only an 10th grade education, that’s my right. Why is everyone expected to excel if that really isn’t their ambition in life?
“their” not “they’re”, now my own lack of education is showing!
“There will always be those who are satisfied to live hand to mouth, because that’s where they feel safe and maybe it’s all they’ve ever known. And who are they that think those people have got to change? Isn’t that pushing your standards onto some else just because that’s what YOU think they should do? Maybe we need to learn to live and let live..afterall everyone has a different idea about what success is and is not for themselves. What ever happened to the idea that each human is a unique individual..responsible for making their way in the world however they choose?
Posted by: Mary Caruso | August 27, 2007 at 08:03 PM
There is absolutely nothing wrong with jobs of the sort that require lesser education. What is wrong is when people make those choices, and then whine and complain about their financial well being. Choices, all choices, have consequences.
PW – I suspect the derision your husband saw was toward MBAs rather than just the Masters degree. Engineers and scientists often feel this way toward management types.
I would also suspect that if he were looking at an advanced engineering degree the attitudes might be different.