Rich nations flunk in educating poor

Rich nations flunk in educating poor
U.S., Greece and New Zealand languish at bottom of class
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Posted: 10:55 AM EST (1555 GMT)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Netherlands is top of the class and the United States third from last among rich nations that help educate the world's poor, a report by an alliance of development agencies found.

The report, released on Tuesday by the Global Campaign for Education, an international coalition of development agencies, teachers' unions and community groups, looked at 22 rich countries and how much of their aid budgets go toward boosting education in developing countries. (snip)

(snip) It gave the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden top marks in their support for education of the poor, followed by Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada and Denmark.

Japan, Spain, Italy, Austria, the United States, Greece and New Zealand were the least supportive, it said. (snip/...)

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/11/18/education.aid.reut/index.html

that are scheduled for extermination?

The uber-rich view the poor as useless eaters.

We worry about democracy and trade deficits with these poorer countries that pay slave labor and are governed by dictatorships. The answer would be to educate the poor. It would increase their productivity, their standard of living, and lead to modern democratic government. In the long term this would lead to less war and new exports to these countries from items that the wealthy countries specialize in. It would, however, deprive large corporations of a cheap slave labor in the short term. Short term thinking is what holds back progress in this world and defines most of the policies of the radical conservatives.

If you have no class system you can;t consolidate your power. the burden has to be on someone, then the opposition needs an oppressed group to have a chance, i sensed it alot in britan while i visited. But there educational system is light years beyond ours.