From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 21:05:07 MST
--- Nathanael Allison <jubungalord@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I understand what your saying. The writers would have to get paid,
> morally
> and economically.
>
> Most goverments control education to some extent. Any information
> that has a scientific basis, is based on facts, is education. I
> would much rather have
> a goverment who spends money to pay writers so that there work is
> free to the public. This is very communistic but so is controlling
> education in the first place. Many people would rather privitize all
> education. This may lead
> to cheaper and therefore better education all around. I dissagree
> with this in the long run, the level of education between the rich
> and poor students will get further and further apart. By making any
> sorce of education subject
> to a free market you will create a class bias education system not
> only for your country but for every country. It doesn't take long
> to go to most run down trailer parks and immediately notice the
> difference in intelligence
> from middle and upperclass communities. With many current systems of
> education I can't see how this problem can be resolved.
In the early 20th century in the US, most students attended private
education, either through private schools in their own neighborhood or
through home schooling. The literacy rate then was far higher then than
it is now, and high school students learned subjects like calculus,
latin, and Shakespeare as a matter of course, not as an exception.
The problem with America's education system has been specifically
perpetrated by public financing and management of it by government. For
example, the literacy rate among blacks was far higher in 1950 than it
was in 1990. This is a direct measurement of the impact of public
education on the poorest and most marginalized Americans.
The founding fathers warned that the diseducation of the citizenry
would destroy the republic, and the only way this has happened is at
the hands of those with the greatest special interest in perpetrating
ignorance in the populace.
> In America something has to be done. If the richest country in the
> world's education system is constant turning out a large percentage
> of stupid people than how will any progress occur accept very slowly
> by the top 1% of the very intelligent.
>
> What do you think?
I think it is an interesting dichotomy that the US primary and
secondary school systems, which are predominantly publicly financed and
managed, are considered the most dismal in the industrialized world,
producing the worst product, with the highest dropout rates.
At the same time, the US university system, however, is considered the
best in the world and is predominantly privately financed and managed.
It produces the best graduates, with the best training, in the world.
Given this, how can you continue to claim that public is better than private?
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