World Bank surveys suggest that a staggering 621 million young people across the globe are "idle" – not in employment, education or training, and not actively seeking a job.
Lack of education means idle brains and morality goes down the drains.
There needs to be a war declared on the idle-bashers – a war of education, of driving the message that no one should spend their entire life working in jobs that just pay the bills, but, far worse, cripple their self-esteem, spirit and humanity.
And it is important that the OECD notes the difference between those Neets who are looking for work, and those who are "idle Neets" – neither working, nor in education, nor even looking for work.
A look over the past 30 years shows that the big change has not been an increase in idle youth, but those who once left the education system to work, to those who are working while staying in education.
Now, only 9percentt of prisoners are in full-time job training or education programs, while 24percentt are completely idle, said James Austin, director of the Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections at George Washington University.
My grandpa didn't stand idle when African-American children were denied an education; he took immediate action, even as he was laying the groundwork for permanent change.
Etymology driven by idle curiosity should be part of a person's education; now back to Schorr's book.
Instead, people who are now idle would have jobs, and young people would receive a better education.
But to spend the first chapter of my education seeing death nearly everyday and staring into its idle eyes so routinely has been nothing short of those moments of epiphany that Joyce wrote of decades ago.
