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"Education and Proliferation Of New (Old) Concepts" by Paul Theobald and Hibajene Shandomo is an article discussing the faults of current education systems and introducing ideas for change. The authors believe that education as it is isn't working because school systems focus on preparing students for jobs. Instead, the article suggests, students should be steered towards enriching human life. Some points that are discussed include maximum wage, agrigarianism, no-growth economics, and commons. Agrigarianism is a human to human concept. The article gives an illustration of a person hunting a deer to explain this term. If there is only one deer in a forest and a hunter catches it, it is only right to share it with his tribe; he should not keep it for himself. No-growth economics is saying that there must be a limit to supplies and population. Both must be controlled. Having a maximum wage is going off the no-growth economics idea because a limited supply of money means that resources for other people are limited. The commons is the area that everyone shares. Since all people are in that area, all get to vote on what happens to it. The earth is a commons because all people share the earth. The article says that people make choices, especially in economics, by "natural law". If someone was raised during the rise of industrialism, that person favors the mass production of all areas.