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Re: Proper Education

Hard Rain — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:11:46 GMT

No nation can prosper without proper education

"Never let school interfere with your education" - Mark Twain.

I wouldn't call arbitrarily forcing people of certain ages to attend socialized priso- I mean day-care centers "educational".

Re: Proper Education

DanielMuff — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:50:18 GMT

Ironically, you didn't add blank spaces after your periods.

Re: Proper Education

fakename — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:38:52 GMT

I love what Mises wrote about this in Human Action, because it's so praxeologically true -the innovators of society don't rely on schooling in mainstream ideas, but it is only in as much as they depart from these ideas that they are innovators.

Re: Proper Education

Jonathan Patterson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:59:09 GMT

This "standardized" education has been the direction we have been heading in since the late 1800's and look at what it has done to kids. Private and home schooled students stand head and shoulders above their public school counterparts.

A nationalized public education system is extremely dangerous and destructive since it only seeks to shape and mold students into a form pleasing and advantageous to the state. How can we actually believe we live in a free society under this system? Were the great western philosophers and the founders of America raised up in a state controlled education system? Of course not!

Re: Proper Education

Sieben — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:46:27 GMT

greenfroguser5:
No nation can prosper without proper education.

Are you saying there's profit to be had by educators?

greenfroguser5:
Hence the education system should be standard.

Experimenting in markets is the key to discovering what works best. Even if entrepreneurs are idiots trial and error can still show us the way. But regardless of state doctrine, I'm pretty sure there won't be schools pushing that 2+2=5.

Re: Proper Education

Artur — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:32:41 GMT

Is "standard" a new euphemism for "paid with stolen money"?

Re: Proper Education

Daniel Hewitt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:06:12 GMT

How public education cripples our kids, and why