[p2p-research] US/European post-WWII experiences and social safety nets

[Kevin Carson]

On 7/29/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
 In theory, cradle-to-grave schooling could absorb any
> > amount of excess workers (a trend we see all too much of in the USA
> > already).

>  As I think more about this one point, I can wonder if maybe we should all
> just give in gracefully to this trend and focus on reforming schools on the
> assumption that they *will* be where most people will spend most of their
> lives in the future? :-) It seems that to date, I have alway heard most
> people (not homeschoolers or unschoolers or freeschoolers though) describe
> the number of people in school in a society with great pride, rather than
> derision. Maybe that pride is what could be built on to build better schools
> on the assumption, like "The Hotel California" or "The Village", you could
> never really leave such places?

Perhaps if you put up a "School" sign over the terrafoam dorms,
everybody would be happy.

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