Comments on: New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce report released today http://fellrath.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/new-commission-on-the-skills-of-the-american-workforce-report-released-today/ Chronicling the alignment of workforce and economic development Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Wyn Achenbaum http://fellrath.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/new-commission-on-the-skills-of-the-american-workforce-report-released-today/#comment-6363 Wyn Achenbaum Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:35:46 +0000 http://fellrath.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/new-commission-on-the-skills-of-the-american-workforce-report-released-today/#comment-6363 "To educate men who must be condemned to poverty, is but to make them restive; to base on a state of most glaring social inequality political institutions under which men are theoretically equal, is to stand a pyramid on its apex." -- Henry George, "Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth ... The Remedy" -- and reissued this year in a modernized abridgement as "Progress and Poverty: Why there are recessions and poverty amid plenty -- and what to do about it!" -- available from http://www.schalkenbach.org/ I'm all for fundamental reform, and I'm persuaded that education is part of that -- but a necessary part not a sufficient part! George provides the reform which is necessary and perhaps even nearly sufficient, which would then allow the educational reform to achieve its objectives. -- see the quote I started with! “To educate men who must be condemned to poverty, is but to make them restive; to base on a state of most glaring social inequality political institutions under which men are theoretically equal, is to stand a pyramid on its apex.”
– Henry George, “Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with increase of wealth … The Remedy”

– and reissued this year in a modernized abridgement as “Progress and Poverty: Why there are recessions and poverty amid plenty — and what to do about it!” — available from http://www.schalkenbach.org/

I’m all for fundamental reform, and I’m persuaded that education is part of that — but a necessary part not a sufficient part! George provides the reform which is necessary and perhaps even nearly sufficient, which would then allow the educational reform to achieve its objectives. — see the quote I started with!

]]> By: The Intangible Economy http://fellrath.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/new-commission-on-the-skills-of-the-american-workforce-report-released-today/#comment-5865 The Intangible Economy Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:40:26 +0000 http://fellrath.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/new-commission-on-the-skills-of-the-american-workforce-report-released-today/#comment-5865 <strong>New workforce skills report</strong> This morning, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce released its report: Tough Choices or Tough Times. The Commission (and the report) is a follow up to the influential 1990 report America’s Choice: high skills or low... New workforce skills report

This morning, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce released its report: Tough Choices or Tough Times. The Commission (and the report) is a follow up to the influential 1990 report America’s Choice: high skills or low…

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