(May 30, 2013 at 12:28 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's what educating girls in Africa observably does.
Does this 'education' provide for them along one of the three lines I noted?
Quote:You're confusing your opinion with an observation.
A tautologically true observation is an opinion? Very well, then: it's an opinion... that if a thing is true it is true.
Quote:A boy in Africa is more likely to get an education in the first place. A girl in Africa with an education is more likely to marry later and bear fewer children in her lifetime, less likely to become infected with AIDS, tends to have a greater increase in income than a boy, and her children are more likely to become educated themselves.
As I said: if they're in a position where their life is better by having an education... they're in that position. There are plenty of children in africa (of both the boy and girl variety) who are not in a position where 'education' as 'the West' might understand will make any difference whatsoever.
A woman with an income in Africa? Please, let's not be ignorant, and declare that it is so because of education: it is so because she's in a position to make it so. Can education help her in this position? Absolutely. Could it help her otherwise? Absolutely not.
Quote:About half of the world's top 20 fastest growing economies are in Africa. While we've been wallowing in recession, the poorest African countries have seen their standard of living increase. Education is valuable and I've never seen people who appreciate access to it more than African girls.
There's a way to make it less of a shithole: economic development, the same force that raised hundreds of millions of Indians and Chinese out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years.
Really, now? That's recent, then. Good for the continent in general. I'm clearly not over the prejudice of where it was for, oh... all of human history.
There's a far superior use for your charity dollar: the economical development. Educational development will come *with* that, not a dollar do you need to spend upon it. African girls? Who cares... their lives will be 'better' whether they are the ones working or not.
Quote:How so? It's incredibly cheap to improve education in Africa. Tiny tuitions, used books, and teachers with an education equivalent to an American HS diploma. It's cheaper to help someone out of extreme poverty (you can get far more people out for the same amount of money)than it is to help them out of moderate poverty, and moderate poverty is a place from which it is much easier to get out of poverty entirely.
An American HS diploma? Funny, since when does so little education make an impact in a life?
Do you think them unable to learn what little they need to know in a couple of days apprenticeship? Gods but they must be worthless.Really... here I thought we were talking about education, not whether a handful of people can perform simple algebra, or point where they are on a map. Anyway... there are people in the west who *are* in extreme poverty: if we didn't have people performing the charity of feeding such people, we would find ourselves with people starving to death. Some do, but it's because of charities that it isn't hilariously prevalent.
Quote:I don't see why I shouldn't care about or be pessimistic about helping people just because they live in Africa.
Oh, I'm not saying you shouldn't help people... I'm just saying that unless it would better them: it won't. Simple
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
