Some foreign policy

China exports goods
US exports knowledge

Open border, encourage immigration offer incentives like a job without a boss – self-employment for people to leave country and spread knowledge.

Rebuilding iraq – some cross between Peace Corps and Armed Forces. Smart, development worker incentive? A shitload of money. The uber Peace Corps volunteers. Bit of military experience, language, development work experience

Invest in preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare - mandatory (via tax breaks) health checks at local

Incentive = tax breaks if you give to development work

Development work, take all info from Peace Corps/ developmental organizations, put on html database network that can be accessed from any computer with Internet, downloadable to be viewed without a connection.

Social profiling, google, babajob…

Elements of a Country (The New Yorker)
The Constitution
Courts
Civil Service
Environment
Science
Economy
Marketplace of Ideas
Intelligence
Military
Diplomacy
National Character

Every person is a commodity. Our resume is our sales pitch. We write down what we’ve done, which is what we are capable of, thus our history. Employers, people who run companies that collaborate both people and resources to make products through which everything started as an idea, look at a resume and decide if they would like this person to work for them. Just as they would pick up a catalogue and decide if they want to order one product instead of another.

The Colonial system of education is impractical. A teacher stands in front of a group of students and tells them things they should know. This knowledge, years down the road, will be applicable in “the real world”, so they say. What happens, is that instead of absorbing the information, students figure out that all they really need to do is follow what the teacher says so they will get a good grade. Good grades permit you to graduate. Good grades look impressive on a resume. The problem is that good grades don’t give you money and don’t give you a job. The biggest struggle I found when I left college was finding a job I really wanted, who conversely wanted me.

What the Colonial system of education teaches is two things: concepts of general knowledge and how to follow directions. Ten years out of high school, the only thing I remember from Calculus is that my teacher made me laugh, she smelled like cigarettes, could tell jokes and oh yeah, something about derivates. Physics, Maley told us a story about his friends of his from college who treated school like a job. 8-5. When 5 came around, they pulled out, this I remember vividly, the six-packs of beer and partied their tail off.

It’s not the material that sticks with you, it’s the method. If schooling was applied more to a practical system of work and jobs, students would be more engaged, would retain more information and would find it easier to find work once they finished.

A community needs a few things to function well: water, food, shelter. Once they have these things, it’s nice to expand to more communal things like infrastructure, electricity, schools, etc. To execute these ideas, we’ve created jobs. We need two things to do a job: the knowledge and the resources.

So you’ve got two things in the education system: knowledge and people who follow directions. School: knowledge and students
Jobs: knowledge and resources

It is the employed sector’s interest to begin schooling within their industries. Instead of paying to go to school, pay someone an internship fee and teach them the basics of what you do.

That’s the struggle. Is making the connection between work and education. How can they fit together?