From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 09:43:49 MDT
>> What do you do in the case of parents who cannot afford to pay tuition?
>> Private charities? Scholarships? It would be a real shame to lose good
>> minds simply because their parents are not successful. This is one reason
>> we have mandatory schooling.
Very sloppy thinking. Subsidized education and mandatory education have
nothing to do with each other. The first is an economic issue: should we
use tax dollars to educate children? The latter is a human rights issue:
should we enslave children to state-run indoctrination centers and jail
parents who dissent? I have some sympathy for those who favor the
former; it raises my libertarian hackles a bit and I think education can
be more than adequately handled by private means, but it's arguable.
But mandatory education should be morally repugnant to any civilized
human. The fact that it is not is very distressing.
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