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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
It's a fine line though. In Utopia, education is free and great.
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Education is always free & great. Schooling always costs money. Education is not synonymous with schooling.
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However, in places like the poorer parts of the inner cities, that goal mostly in unobtainable because the many parents (if one or both are still around) are likely working two jobs and/or are drug addicts or in jail for some other crime. That is a very sad statistic, but it is a reality. So, what happens to these kids if the state does not take care of them and expose them to some kind og reading and thought?
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What happens to them now?
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But, I do agree with you on the larger point that the education system in the US needs a vast overhaul
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Public schooling doesn't need an overhaul -- it has been overhauled hundreds of times in a thousand different ways since the 1960s. What it needs is dismantling altogether. It is a byzantine bureaucracy that sucks up more & more money every year (at the insistence of the very people who fail year after year to teach reading, writing, & ciphering to millions), & turns out failed "experiments" in social engineering & groupthink.
Public schooling is the Wall. Education is the chink in the wall. It is a fierce beast broken into the fold, as Richard Mitchell once described it. Education takes hold in a person's mind or doesn't take hold, irrespective of what public schools do or don't do.
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and that gearing it toward literacy and thought provoking discussion is the way to go.
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You'll be right back to Square 1 if you let the silly school bureaucrats define "literacy" for you.
discussion? Education needs no such discussion (nothing more than a rap session) to take hold, other than the discussion inside a human being's own mind.
Education doesn't occur when you look down at the page in the book. It occurs when you look up immediately afterward.