Topic For December 2003
**Infrastructure for education creates educational infrastructure for youth
employability**
If youth employment has to be ensured we have to educate youth. For
education is the primary foundational infrastructure to create
employability in a youth. To impart education you need educational
infrastructures. Thus, educational institutions in every part of the globe
need to be created.
With this pragmatic ideology in mind, we are happy to inform you that on
11th December, 2003, the YES Campaign is inaugurating the YES Academy. The
infrastructure for education is very important, because the histories and
futures of the educational institution and of our community are
intertwined. And that is because the continuous building of new knowledge
is the one true transformational agent in our society. The educational
institutions are those cumulative enterprises of knowledge creation which
serve as the building blocks of progress, that is, it serves as
infrastructure. It serves as infrastructure just as surely as bricks and
mortar build the facilities of our great cities and of our most notable
enterprises.
The central ideas of education as infrastructure are simple:
- that education is infrastructure, because through research, it creates
the ideas and technologies that shape the industries of the future.
- that education is infrastructure, because through the engagement of
students, it creates knowledgeable individuals that shape our industries
and our societies.
- that education is infrastructure because it enables both personal and
economic progress.
Fundamentally, education is infrastructure through its "value adding"
benefit -- as the fruits of knowledge begin to impact our quality of life.
Indeed, economists agree that creation of technological knowledge through
basic research is our most direct economic avenue for acquiring added
value. When that new knowledge is quantified in a market environment -- it
creates fuller employment, capital formation, growing profits, and
surpluses for reinvestment. It is from research that new companies are
born; that new jobs are created. It is from research that the economy
expands and new wealth is created.
Functional educational infrastructure reduces the disparity between the
"techno elite" and the "techno poor".
Please send your comments to the YES List.
Tony Mathur
Moderator
<tony@yesweb.org>
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