What does Erie County, Pennsylvania most need? Where should scarce resources (such as from government entities, school district budgets, local businesses, and individual philanthropists) be allocated to get the most powerful results? Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. We’ve all heard it before. The best way to lift people out of poverty, the best way to enrich the lives of people from all socioeconomic strata, for that matter, is to give them skills, attitudes, values, and knowledge that will ensure that they eat well (body and soul) for a lifetime. Children are easier to teach than adults. Public schools reach more needy children than private. Therefore, we need to allocate more resources for public education.

The underlying assumption, here, is that we need to do what is best for all of us …

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