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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41370)	6/21/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Fine. But before I delve in, you might want to rethink the "free to the student," at least while the student is a minor and can't afford to make the money to pay for education. If you don't accept that, I'm going to make you explain how you can guarantee a universal system where people have to pay, when some people may be unwilling or unble to pay. Are you going to say that parents who can pay will HAVE to pay (or be fined, or go to jail, and how is that different from making the education free for the student)? And that children of parents who can't pay will be subsidized (and how is that different from making the education free for the student)? You're too intellectually honest to try to get away with "well, we'll have universal education and it won't necessarily be free to the student but we won't talk about who pays for it or what happens to students whose parents can't or won't pay for it."