Education is the Investment-Prosperity is the Dividend

4. But we refuse to believe that the bank of
justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe
that there are insufficient funds in the
great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
And so, we've come to cash this check, a
check that will give us upon demand the
riches of freedom and the security of
justice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream (1963)

5. “caveat emptor”
…Let the Buyer Beware

8. Headline:
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
“We have a work-based safety net without any work,” said
Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for
Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. “People with more education and skills will
probably figure something out once the economy picks
up. It’s the ones with less education and skills: that’s the
new poor.”
New York Times
February 21, 2010

9. Incarceration has an inverse relationship
to educational attainment
Incarceration

12. ... My friends, we are one in this country.
The question of the highest citizenship
and the complete education of all
concerns nearly ten million of my own
people and over sixty million of yours. We
rise as you rise; when we fall you fall.
When you are strong we are strong; when
we are weak you are weak. There is no
power than can separate our destiny.
Booker T. Washington
Democracy and Education 1896