From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 03:45:21 MST
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> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
>
> ---Leon Boey <blackman@pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> >
> > From what I have read on this list on this topic, (and compiled
> below) it
> > seems that the points brought up about education in this thread are:
> >
> > 1. Free education at a basic level.
> > 2. Teaching of logic and thinking skills
> > 3. Private schools providing a "free market" competitiveness
> between
> > schools
> > 4. Nothing of everyday application learnt in school.
> > 5. Poor people not getting an education
> > 6. Inadequate advancement of brighter students
> > 7. School placing too much emphasis on developing socialization
> skills
> > 8. Same age => same education
> > 9. Education leads to raised output and higher GNP.
> >
> > A suggestion to compiling all of this into a workable and usable
> education
> > philosophy would be schools that are free at a primary level to
> everybody
> > regardless of social standing. This would hopefully 'help' the
> poorer people
> > to get a better life by being educated, rather than leave them
> absolutely no
> > chance to get out of their situation. It would help if this primary
> > education would be compulsory. This would definitely help in a
> country's
> > literacy rate.
> >
>
> !!!! When are you collectivists going to learn that there's no such
> thing as a "free" education??!!!??
>
> If by "free" education you mean one supported with tax money, then you
> are advocating a "free" education supported with violence - the
> coercion of taxation.
>
> It doesn't matter how benign your intentions are, any governmental
> fooling with prices at any level is detrimental to the economy as a
> whole. Any form of involuntary taxation is theft, and therefore
> immoral.
If the government legalized drugs, prostitution and gambling, and
started offering these services itself, perhaps there could be an
(almost) tax-free welfare state. Certainly if you invest in automating
society. Human workers are generally less reliable than machines,
and cost more too. Furthermore, most jobs are a blunt violation
of human dignity. Society will only become truly civilized when
people no longer have to perform slave labor on a daily basis in
order to make ends meet. And no, I don't think you need nanotech
to achieve this; we have the tech, but apparently lack the will to
use it.
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