ABSTRACT
The task of this essay is to detail ways in which education can alleviate poverty. What we shall do is describe the history of direct attempts to use education to alleviate poverty, and apply a rather unconventional analysis to show where these attempts have been effective, where they have not worked, and why. In so doing, we shall try to outline the extent to which education can do anything at all to reduce poverty, and whether or not it can indeed bring people "beyond welfare."
