The value of education, and what it looks like now and in the future

It is not the big that eat the small, nor the rich that eat the poor, but the informed that eat the ignorant. What have you done lately to stop yourself from resigning to the bottom end of the ever decreasing middle class? Education isn't just letters behind your name, but the ability to gain years of wisdom without the equivalent time with one's nose to the grindstone, not by increasing one's stature, but by standing on the shoulders of giants. If you can name the last three winners of American Idol or Survivor, but don't know who Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, or Warren Buffet are, time to hit the books! What have you done lately to empower yourself for the future?