Coffee & Conversation: “Education Under Fire” Again

Despite seeing some of the best and the worse, I’m a believer: education – both formal and the schooling on the outside of a building – saved my life.

Education also made my life.

Much of the chatter about education centers on the economic angle. What happened to the civic, social, and moral aspects of education? Not important? Can we truly be hopeful without making education an entitlement – including education beyond the traditional American compulsory years?

And what of the folks dying for an education?

Rainn Wilson BIHE Video Appeal from Education Under Fire on Vimeo.

Do we take education and its impacts for granted? Is our collective identity tied to education? Why is it all so crummy? Should education, at all levels, be a right? It’s already globally recognized, but should America guarantee education? How much and how little? Can you be a human being without an advanced education?

This Friday, during Coffee and Conversation, let’s talk about the expectations of education.  We’ll start by checking out the 30-minute documentary Education Under Fire. You take it from there – I’ll bring the cookies and coffee; you bring the convo.  See you – 3-5 p.m. – at the Howard Thurman Center.

Peace.