Forum Post: Help and grow the community by offering free classes?

Here's an idea. Occupy Wall Street, in addition to protesting, could provide a useful service and increase goodwill by offering free classes at local libraries. I would volunteer to do this in my city. You could teach basic stuff, get-a-job/live-cheaply stuff and/or you could get people up to speed on what is really going on in our political system.

I taught a computer science survey class at a university. I think it was very useful. We went over basic terminology, how things work, how to avoid viruses/phishing, privacy issues, etc.

You could teach people how to change their own oil, sew their own clothes, can vegetables, etc.

Or you could take a topic like Financial Deregulation and explain, for example, what it means when people call for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act. I don't even understand this. I think if people really understood what went on they would be even more likely to support this protest.

I also think that this would increase goodwill towards the movement. Some of us see protesting as "helping people" but some people do not! If you were providing basic, useful, quality instruction - for free - then clearly your intention is really to help people. I think you would find volunteers. Teachers love to teach! Thoughts?