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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41359)6/21/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Let's get the original topic back on track - i.e. Can we begin to expect a civilized,
modern society to provide universal education?

But that WASN'T the original topic. The original topic was whether parents who send their children to private school should get a tax break. And the sentence which started this discussion was:

"Universal free education is a basic qualifying characteristic of a
civilized society."

Your reformulation assumes that you already have a civilized society, and the question then is whether you can expect that already civilized modern society to provide universal (you left out the free) education. That puts it exactly backward.

The original charge was that you CANNOT have a civilized society WITHOUT universal free education. The order is exactly reversed from yours -- education first, and only THEN a civilized society. THAT is what I objected to (and continue to object to.)
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