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To: Road Walker who wrote (364273)	1/22/2008 2:11:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574767

but ability and freedom are different things Only at the technical level. In practice they are the same. No, in practice any every other way they are different things. "The ability issues isn't a big argument for public schools, even assuming no ability without government funding, because you can have government funding without government owned/run schools." Again, that is technically correct. But in the real world it wouldn't work. If it would, you would have some country, somewhere, where that model had evolved. In the real world it has worked, and is done in many countries (they usually have public schools in addition to private schools where the education is paid for by the public, but I don't think that is universally so, and the private school tuitions paid for by the government are a serious part of a number of countries educational systems) To the extent that it hasn't happened more, it just means its not politically popular, or that there are ideological and other special interests against it.