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Date Posted: 04:17:45 02/21/00 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Education - a 2 edged sword? an impossibility? Mi no klia tumas.
In reply to: 's message, "Thats Captialism" on 01:20:41 02/21/00 Mon

Your comments focus on issues that have been a real paradox for me. You and I know how much education we would really need to become competitive against those who now control resource development and downstream processing. I mean, like they started learning these education tools when they were young, and their parents push them day and night. Our village environment is totally incapable of providing the kind of environment needed to develop these skills deep down.

An example is the handling of money. Look at little Aussie kids, they've got to handle their weekly allowance when they're maybe 8 years old, and they see money handled on a daily basis. Some grow up to still be poor money handlers but most of them do okay. But why? Because they had this nonstop learning and exposure when they were young.

I think about all this and if I want to try and be hard nosec objective about it, it looks truly hopeless for the average citizen to ever be competitive in terms of education. You can have whatever government policy you want, but at least half our education comes outside the school, and if you're missing half of a "desired education" because of your environment, then you are going to be fairly noncompetitive in the end.

Aren't we deceiving people in the village when we tell them that the way they will be able to develop their own resources is if they get educated like those from developed countries? We are telling the truth, of course. The deception is that it will be impossible for them to become that way.

I think back to another posting on this forum, about this strange 2 cultures that is developing in PNG, a city culture and a rural culture. Yeah, the city people can acquire a level of education that is competitive, because they live in a capitalist urban environment. But then they end up controlling most of the wealth.

Wouldn't that situation go completely against our egalitarian nature?

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