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To: Road Walker who wrote (367954)	1/22/2008 9:04:08 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575030

If private elementary education was superior and more efficient it would have evolved somewhere... you are the free market guy, you know that. As I said more than once it has. Also the point of argument is about whether it works or not, not whether its superior. I won't hide the fact that I do think its superior, but if you go back all I said was "you can have government funding without government owned/run schools", not that it was superior. And while superior methods tend to come about in a free market. 1 - Its not automatic, a "good enough" method can become dominant, and stay that way for a long time and far more importantly 2 - Education hasn't been a free market. If the government simply sets the way the educational system will operate than it gets determined by the political process not by market forces. The political process can and often does ignore superior methods indefinitely.