The US is cluing onto the fact that their “war on drugs” simply manifests as a war on the poverty stricken. It is now understood that poverty dramatically effects brain development and coping skills. The most obvious distinction between the learning environments of poor students and those better off comes in the form of en/discouragement. The disparity between the results of the simple encouragement better off children receive and the discouragement poor children experience is a growth factor humanity will need to at least minimise if it is to prosper and survive for any considerable length of time.

The better off child does not need to have exceptionally well off parents. If the parents are education conscious, manage their lives efficiently and encourage the child to do well the results translate as the proverbial well adjusted person. Though this might intuit as being the normal learning environment to expect it is obviously very easy to fall outside of this demographic.

Where encouragement is the music that soothes the learning experiences savage beast, discouragement is a multivarious hydra that regrows more heads for the one you eliminate,

For the poverty stricken child discouragement is everywhere and does not require drug-addicted parents who beat them. The brain development inherent to the poor is one of walls where the better off find doors. The better off develop understanding of what amounts to law abiding habits. For the impoverished learner, each missing door must either be substituted or breached in some manner. Law abiding is inevitably substitute with law ignorance, law irreverance and law circumvention. The resulting naturally evolved creature, under the etiquette of the ‘civilised’, is then cast in the role of the outlaw and freely persecuted.

If education reform were synonimised with poverty elimination it might be provide greater political weight. The system we encounter stuffs a pillow over the issues restlessly sleeping head so the children who are up early can be sold candy flavored coal. Where commonality of education should be a basic social right, politically it has become either a disdained maintenance cost or a means to beg milk from the calf everywhere outside of Germany.

…… does anyone know any poverty stricken Germans?

I don’t know any poverty stricken anyone, but I am sure poverty stricken Germans exist.

AwesomeO said:

I don’t know any poverty stricken anyone, but I am sure poverty stricken Germans exist.

All that effort wasn’t worth more than a supposition?

AwesomeO said:

I don’t know any poverty stricken anyone, but I am sure poverty stricken Germans exist.

Bring one forth for interviewing and examination………..!

Postpocelipse said:

AwesomeO said:

I don’t know any poverty stricken anyone, but I am sure poverty stricken Germans exist.

Bring one forth for interviewing and examination………..!

Over 12.5 million Germans are now living below the poverty line which is the highest number on record since reunification 25 years ago.

Berlin, the capital of the eurozone’s economic powerhouse is one of the poorest regions in Germany.

The figures come in a report by one of the country’s welfare organisations.

The poverty threshold was calculated at 892 euros a month for a single household and 1,873 euros for a family of four.

Berlin with 21.4 percent falling into the poor category is well above the country’s average while Bavaria has the richest people.

Poverty has never been so high and regional disunity has never run so deep said the report.

“Poverty in Germany is not so much an economic problem, but rather a result of political omissions. That has to be said clearly. We would have the chance to fight this poverty as the fifth richest country in the world. But obviously we have extreme problems of distribution in times of increasing prosperity,” said Ulrich Schneider,Head of Germany’s Equal Welfare Organization.

The report highlighted the unemployed as one of the groups most at risk, 40 percent are living in poverty despite receiving social benefits. It also said it did not see any potential advantages from the new minimum wage of 8.50 euros per hour which came into effect in January.

And Germany’s pensioners have suffered a 48 percent increase in poverty in the space of six years and are not getting the their share of the country’s economic growth.

The report recommends increasing state welfare payments, an expansion of public employment as well as support programmes for single mothers to tackle the poverty problem.

The OP weighs poverty under functionality of individual rather than financially.

Postpocelipse said:

The OP weighs poverty under functionality of individual rather than financially.

meh…

you have google too… knock yourself out…

stumpy_seahorse said:

Postpocelipse said:

The OP weighs poverty under functionality of individual rather than financially.

meh…

you have google too… knock yourself out…

Not while I’m digesting physically ingested matter……

The Jane Austen Novel

dv said:

The Jane Austen Novel

yes.. nailed……

education is the basis of any state – no education, no state

how your state functions is based on who gets educated and who doesn’t

the status quo is held by restricting education, you drive people out of education by driving up prices and telling them its a user pays system. joe hockey paid a pittance for his education at uni and became part of the problem that has seen education costs going through the roof. for those already at the top of the ladder its fine, you can laugh and give the finger to everyone below.

and the result of this demise of education and the rise of education costs??

Australia losing ground on productivity and efficiency every year and a massive debt that cant and wont be paid off. when you wreck the education system you wreck the economy, things fail, your armies lose every conflict, nothing works.

its not a process that happens overnight but something that plays out over decades and it happens so slowly you don’t even notice

considering the greeks were meant to be the epitome of learning its strange that if you were a learned fellow you wouldn’t make tracks to Greece unless for classical studies – not much has come out of Greece for centuries (or its colonies), to my knowledge I believe it was religion that shut the greek education system down in the end.

sun Tzu says land is the essence of the state – the physical essence

the education system is the concept of state

its true marauders may take land but they can rarely hold it, for example Vikings created Normandy and eventually England under a French educated king but conceptually the Normans were gone after a few centuries, the courts stopped using French as the official language of the law courts.

wookiemeister said:

education is the basis of any state – no education, no state

how your state functions is based on who gets educated and who doesn’t

the status quo is held by restricting education, you drive people out of education by driving up prices and telling them its a user pays system. joe hockey paid a pittance for his education at uni and became part of the problem that has seen education costs going through the roof. for those already at the top of the ladder its fine, you can laugh and give the finger to everyone below.

and the result of this demise of education and the rise of education costs??

Australia losing ground on productivity and efficiency every year and a massive debt that cant and wont be paid off. when you wreck the education system you wreck the economy, things fail, your armies lose every conflict, nothing works.

its not a process that happens overnight but something that plays out over decades and it happens so slowly you don’t even notice

considering the greeks were meant to be the epitome of learning its strange that if you were a learned fellow you wouldn’t make tracks to Greece unless for classical studies – not much has come out of Greece for centuries (or its colonies), to my knowledge I believe it was religion that shut the greek education system down in the end.

Don’t worry Wookie, there is always coal mining and cutting down the forests.