Robert Reich Gets It Right
(again)

Robert Reich had a great post on December 3rd, discussing how our society has lost sight of what makes America great, the people and the people that we educate here.

"Our preoccupation with the immediate crisis of financial capital is causing us to overlook the bigger crisis in America's human capital. While we commit hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street, we're slashing our outlays for public education."

I couldn't agree more. It is short sighted to slash funding for education in these times of economic difficulty. The education of student makes our economy more efficient, robust, and productive in the future. Reducing already anemic educational budgets may be penny wise, but it is pound foolish.