OT: Purdue/PSU, was [rescue] ss2 under load

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:24:53AM -0500, R. Lonstein wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:53:01AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>     [snip]
> > Yes, most Canadian and American education is focused on
> > indoctriation and training you to respond appropriately to
> > authority. Not too much on thinking for yourself.
> >
> > Why else do you think politicians continue to throw money
> > at publik skools... they are getting EXACTLY the results
> > they want.
>     [snip]
> 
> It couldn't be that affordable, widespread education is a public good.

An educated populace is a public good, no argument there.  Overpaid,
unionized, can't-be-fired teachers and 1 admin person for every 1
teacher in a classroom is maybe not so good.

Hint: before public education started in the US, literacy was about
99%.  It is not that high now.  

Tom Paine's book, "Common Sense" sold half a million copies when the
total population of the USA was less than 6 million.  That is
equivalent to selling 20 million copies of a book in the USA given
today's population.

Read up on the actual history of American education and you will find
that it is based on the Prussian model - the same model that led
Germany to the formation of the Third Reich.  Not good.

> And it couldn't be that the students are getting out of their schools
> what they put in or what they deserve. Don't confuse "going to school"
> with "getting an education" and "getting an education" with "learning".

Then why subsidize lackluster students?

./patrick