From: phil osborn (philosborn@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 19:43:48 MDT
> >
> > As I recently said, "The solution would be corporate sponsorship."
> >
> > If you value life, *value* life!
>
>Imagine the following:
>
>Welcome to Union Carbide High School, home of the UCHS Gassers...
>because we care.
>Tonite our team is playing the boys of the Mighty Lockheed Bombers,
>visiting from Ground Zero Stadium...
>
>I am all for competition and merit in student acheivement, and no
>mainstreaming. I am especially for competition and merit among teachers
>(break the NEA monopoly), but pasting a corporate logo on my kid so he
>can go to school? Thats the kind of irresponsible idea that the morons I
>talk of in my prior post would be all for...
>
So you actually think that it's better to take money from people who happen
to have preferences for lifestyles different from yours, at the point of a
gun, money which is then allocated by bureaucrats with no stake in the
outcome toward whatever passes for "education" among the elite parasites
from academia - the people who told my parents not to ruin me by teaching me
to read at the age of three; wait for the experts to do it at six. The
jerks who spread racism throughout the South. Right.
You might want to look into the FIRST public school - which was public in
the sense that it was open to anyone - run at a profit by Lancaster in the
18th century. He educated half of London, including the poorest of the
poor, and made money hand over fist.
The idea of corporate sponsorship vs. state sponsorship would almost
certainly be a major improvement over what we have now in "education," which
is mind-numbingly awful, for the most part. However, I should also note
that corporations are themselves children of the state. I would much prefer
private sponsorship and actual investment, similar to the successful
microloans program.
A child in deepest central Africa should be able to get a loan if the
creditors see a profit in it. Of couse, if he were to form a personal trust
and sell shares in himself, then he would have a vested interest in
maintaining the value of the shares, as these would be his ticket to acquire
further investment for going to college, starting a business, etc. The
internet has made this all quite feasible, by reducing the various
information costs - transactional and risk. It's just a matter of time
before the businessmen start offering mutual funds that invest directly in
people - kids as well as adults. And I would sure bet my money on one of
those kids long before I would hand over any cash to some kid who has been
indoctrinated in the state schools.
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