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Politics : Libertarian Discussion Forum
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (4371)11/1/2000 1:32:24 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (2) of 13056
 
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...To suggest that poor people don't need/deserve education is just silly and counterproductive....

It's really hard to imagine how you are able twist the Libertarian position on education into this absurdity.

In short, education is far too important to allow a virtually complete state monopoly of supply.

The result of a century and a half or so of public compulsory education is that 99% of college graduates today
have inferior educations to what was the median for the sixth grade graduates of a century or more ago. This is likely to be true even after normalizing for native student ability, although economic factors limiting the historical access to even a sixth grade education need to be considered. Where the present public school students have the advantage is in an uncanny skill to separate household waste into the proper recycling containers.

Regards, Don
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