Chapter 13

Wheelan presents ten or so approaches to fighting poverty and improving the economy of nations, however I think this chapter reiterated that education is the most effective way to fight poverty on the macro and micro scale. Even some of the other factors to an improving economy were simply extensions of education people. For instance the section about "Woman power." All over the world Women should be and need to be educated for multiple reasons, each of which will probably improve the economy. Being a woman, I found it interesting how Wheelan's notes that men are more irresponsible with a households income than women, especially because society often thinks of men as the "bill payers" and "tax doers." Anyway, this chapter really got me thinking about how I've sometimes thought I would maybe want to be a teacher but now I think it would be even better to be a teacher in third world countries because that is the basis of turning a nations economy around. I just think the power of education is really cool and unfortunately something that MA students, including myself, take for granted.