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To: koan who wrote (77413)	4/8/2008 6:34:37 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Many vouchers are used by the parents to send students to instiutions which only provide a dogma, rather than introdue the student to the eclectic wisdom of all the cultures and people in the world as most public instituions do for their students. Hmmm, having grown up in the 1970s and having attended public schools from kindergarten though high school, there clearly was and is a dogma in the public schools. It may be a dogma that you prefer over other dogmas, but it is a dogma nonetheless. In fact, the public schools in the US were modeled after the Prussian public education system, which sought to regiment good little workers for the mines and mills. Why do you think the subjects are presented in neat compartments, and that the beginning and end of classes are announced by bells? Public school provided some useful training. I learned that many people have a deep streak of envy toward others (which they think of as "justice"), and that this envy can be used to your own ends if you are clever. I learned that it is best to maintain a veneer of conformity with my peers, and that arbitrary power and needless rules are the predominant forms of authority in our society. What I learned of value at that age I learned on my own, and much of this self-education was a process of unlearning and deprogramming. Too bad I never acquired any study discipline until I was well into college- graduate school was a rude but necessary awakening. -ng- Here's my favorite short story on the public school experience in the US: coldbacon.com "Everything is promised my classmates and I, most of all the future. We accept the outrageous assurances without blinking."