The Organizer
St. Petersburg, Russia
I have been receiving a burdensome number of tweets, demanding to know, So how are we going to pay for all of these hopelessly idealistic international universities?
As oil and war have kept each other company since World War One, so clean energy and the building of a resilient peace can nurture each other through the Twenty First Century. If you tally up what the war profiteers have pocketed during the past century, then you will have roughly the amount which we can invest in global education during the coming century.
John Maynard Keynes called it "the multiplier effect": the amount invested engenders an eventual return which is greater than the original investment by a factor of more than one. Schools are, of course, a superb investment. Educate people, then provide them with steady jobs, and their income taxes will first repay the original investment, and then contribute to investments in the next generation of students.
This is called a healthy economy. This is called a healthy society. This is called democracy.
John Slade
Woodgate International
http://www.woodgateintl.com/
John Maynard Keynes called it "the multiplier effect": the amount invested engenders an eventual return which is greater than the original investment by a factor of more than one. Schools are, of course, a superb investment. Educate people, then provide them with steady jobs, and their income taxes will first repay the original investment, and then contribute to investments in the next generation of students.
This is called a healthy economy. This is called a healthy society. This is called democracy.
John Slade
Woodgate International
http://www.woodgateintl.com/
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