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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41346)6/21/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Maybe a safer formulation is that universal free education is becoming recognized as
a hallmark of a civilized society.

Is your thesis, then, that if a society moves from either a purely private education system or a non-universal free public education system to a universal free education system it will necessarily become more civilized?

And/or is your thesis that no society in the 21st century can be considered civilized if it does not have universal free education?

And how much universal free education? Through any particular age? Any particular level of educational achievement? (If functional literacy is the goal, then we don't have it in the US today.)

What about people who are functionally uneducable?

And what is your definition of a civilized society? (No fair answering a question with a question -- I asked you first! <g>)
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