On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:31, Curt Howland wrote: > Excuse me, prior to 1840 education was all private. Therefore, your > first "reason" is false.
Yeah, and prior to 1840, so few people knew how to read that the US came up with the retarded electoral college system to make sure someone who knew how to read would be around for the vote. That approach to education certainly did us a lot of good. > > The purpose of the public programs is to ensure that *something* is > > there for the middle class and poor. It doesn't have to be > > gold-plated. > > Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing very > well indeed without coercive "public" schooling. America didn't have much in the way of any middle class prior to the widespread accessability to education. Now that this situation is redeveloping in the US, we're seeing the middle class disappear and the lower class exploding. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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