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Shown: education is best investment artillery

By Jose Luis Castillo.

Source: Blog Jose Luis Castillo
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Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times (on twitter @ nickkristof ). I come by some time reading her personal commitment situations of poverty and human rights violation over world. Today I had breakfast with his opinion article on Costa Rica . The country tops the list of global happiness. And that list is drawn up based on parameters that are trying to be objective to fulfill the mission of measuring subjective. It is made by the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Pick multiple studies that combine many different variables, as a kind of happiness, the same duration, method that has been investigated, scale that shows the results ... All this to say that it is a reliable work, we . For

Costa Rica is the country happiest, on average. More than Denmark. And definitely more than the U.S.

Costa Ricans, Asked to rate Their own happiness on a 10-point scale, average 8.5. Denmark is next at 8.3, the United States ranks 20th at 7.4

Is it coincidence that a country is also long-lived, with a notable development of the healthcare? And is it coincidence that a country that has opted for sustainable development? Or it will be because in 1949 decided to abolish the military for all that investment is targeted towards education?

The Evidence is strong That education is a far Often Better Than artillery investment.
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English proficient population that has been promoted ecotourism, but also they can place on the world stage for technological innovation. Indeed, in a low-pollution . And they got, before anyone else, thanks to their educational level, gender differences overcome, which has made women into the development of their country in a much more fully than in many other countries. Without abandoning its Latin roots, that put a high emphasis on family and friends in the capital.

Costa Rica has done an unusually good job Preserving nature, and it's Surely to be happy while cutting easier basking in sunshine and greenery than while shivering up north and suffering “nature deficit disorder.”

What sets Costa Rica apart is its remarkable decision in 1949 to dissolve its armed forces and invest instead in education. Increased schooling created a more stable society, less prone to the conflicts that have raged elsewhere in Central America. Education also boosted the economy, enabling the country to become a major exporter of computer chips and improving English-language skills so as to attract American eco-tourists.

In Costa Rica, rising education levels also fostered impressive gender equality (…). This allows Costa Rica to use its female population more productively (…). Likewise, education nurtured improvements in health care, with life expectancy now about the same as in the United States. Rising education levels also led the country to preserve its lush environment as an economic asset. Costa Rica is an ecological pioneer, introducing a carbon tax in 1997. The Environmental Performance Index, a collaboration of Yale and Columbia Universities, ranks Costa Rica at No. 5 in the world (…).

Latin countries generally do well in happiness surveys. Perhaps one reason is a cultural emphasis on family and friends, on social capital over financial capital.

¿Habremos encontrado en Costa Rica, por fin, un modelo educativo, social, ecológico, to save three major structural crisis and three major economic crises? Is it education or is it just where we take education, ie education goals? Could this be the decade of education?