ext_299122 ([identity profile] montecristo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-07-16 06:00 pm (UTC)

Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft

In other words, Adams would like education to be, along with medical care, available only to those who can pony up the cash for it.

Utter emotionalism. Also, your speculations are self-serving fantasies. It is the public system which is failing and producing spectacles of ignorance and miseducation, not private education.

Considering what you've written, more fundamentally, even including the extent that people teach what they know out of their own time and resources, as charity or other benevolence, education will always be available "only to those who can pony up the cash for it." Education is a service provided out of human leisure; it does not fall out of the sky on people like rain. It is only a question of how the "cash" is obtained: through force and coercion or through persuasion and free trade.

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