The great social importance of education is underscored, too, by the fact that when a society is shaken by a crisis, this often is taken as a sign of educational breakdown; education, and educators, become scapegoats.
Or, alternately, they respond in a reflective essay to one or more of the following quotations from the article: "There are bands of youths, some very young, who are in a state of social, family and educational breakdown".
Instead we must tackle the root causes of poverty, such as educational failure, family breakdown, drug abuse, indebtedness and crime".
This week, copycat looting has again shifted attention from the core problems within black communities: poverty, discrimination, disaffection, police harassment, educational underachievement, family breakdown.
Mr Duncan Smith said: "Today, with the launch of our consultation on the new child poverty strategy, we restate our commitment to tackling poverty at its source - be it worklessness, family breakdown, educational failure, addiction, or debt".
They voiced concern that the new life chances strategy due to be published later this year would place much less emphasis on low family income as a measure of deprivation – looking instead at less easily defined factors including educational attainment, family breakdown, addiction and debt.
Victims, the majority of whom are female, can experience severe psychological trauma, stalking, loss of professional and educational opportunities, the breakdown of family and other intimate relationships, and depression.
That is why we want to take a new approach by tackling the root causes of poverty including worklessness, educational failure and family breakdown.
The Tories accuse Labour of a narrow focus on money that ignores family breakdown, addiction, educational failure and other "pathways to poverty".
That is why we want to take a new approach by tackling the root causes of poverty, including worklessness, educational failure and family breakdown.
This would be one that looks at joblessness, educational failure and family breakdown as well as income.
