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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (50382)	1/2/2018 11:44:27 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364140

Well, give some examples of signaling being a huge problem and the wave of the future as he maintains. The last people we should go to for advice about public education are economists. It is best to have the state and local school boards elected by the people make the decisions. Democracy. And from my experiences in high school and college they do a great job. And society as a whole should fund it with taxes. And the public schools should be for everyone. It is in the best interest of a society to have an educated populace. An educated person makes better decisions and can see through nonsense and propaganda, like FOX engages in. The public education system we have in place is fine. We just need more. Colleges generally teach and offer all the humanities: sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, economics, etc. That is what everyone should know as it provides a realistic context for a persons reality.. << Nobody is saying that mass education is not good for society. It's a matter of which kind of education for which people paid for by whom. Figuring that out requires economists, not dreamers. <<He just made that up. I'm quite sure that's not true. I was aware of the problem decades ago, back before he was old enough to have made it up. It makes much more sense to dispense with the analogy and the idea of signaling and speak directly to the subject at hand. Is it good for society to invest in mass education. Yes, it is, in spades. Nobody is saying that mass education is not good for society. It's a matter of which kind of education for which people paid for by whom. Figuring that out requires economists, not dreamers.