Political Theory

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

SkepticalMetal — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:00:59 GMT

Sorry. I naturally attempt to interpret the underlying tone of one's message, it's one of the downsides of e-mail and written communication in general.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

John James — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:54:09 GMT

SkepticalMetal:
@John James ...I was being sarcastic, I agree with you.

I know. I was just offering another supporting example.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

Wheylous — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:51:37 GMT

Gotlucky - correct

Jargon - It works fine. Did you click the "Skip Ad" buttonon Forbes?

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

SkepticalMetal — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:47:53 GMT

@John James

...I was being sarcastic, I agree with you.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

Kelvin Silva — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:47:04 GMT

We NEED public cellphone communications, public housing, public meals, and public toilets, public fuckhouses (brothel) because all of these shouldn't be a business.

All of the above is required for any human being in america to thrive!

How dare you capitalists turn these essential goods into a greedy privatized system!

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

John James — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:43:44 GMT

SkepticalMetal:
Oh, okay. Public education, FTW!

Once again, I'm gonna defer back to my "survival of the fittest" example.

Oh yeah, and relevent for this thread:

from Guides and Knowledge for your Intellectual Journey:

Education playlist

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

BransonBow — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:26:11 GMT

If it was private, the poor would get shitty education, or none at all.

In the future, I expect to see more homeschool and online education. The public schools in my area are beginning to offer online education and I'm not just speaking of college. This is for the area highschools. Meetup.org is allowing parents to come together and form co-op education. The online model offers lower overhead, this means more affordability. I expect to see tutorials, lesson plans, etc. being offered (MIT already does for free)as well as lectures through a skype like interactive video. This is already happening in higher-ed and with places like this sites own Mises U. I would also expect things like open-source information and p2p file sharing to offer these things for free.

The common argument I hear against it are "What if people don't have access to technology." This isn't a problem as a lot of people, inlcuding young folks have smart phones and I-pod's with video capability and tablets are growing more popular.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

SkepticalMetal — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:58:29 GMT

"It's a decent way of getting the most children educated"

Oh, okay. Public education, FTW!

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Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

cab21 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:14:12 GMT

the government can take care of the poor by killing the poor. reduce the population to the those that fit set standards and that will be a solution to problems.

without government, learning would have reason behind it, people would be taught better and for cheaper.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

Phi est aureum — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:11:40 GMT

@JJ

YES! LOL!

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

John James — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:02:02 GMT

We NEED public food production, because food shouldn't be a business.

If we made all food production private, then how will the very poor be able to afford it? How will they be fed? Sure, the Soviet system isn't perfect, but it's a decent way of getting the most children fed. If it was private, the poor would get shitty food, or none at all. The disparity would be tremendous. It's just buying yourself the best food, and that's not right. It isn't considering the importance of feeding the broad base of our youth.

Provate food is all about money. It would just be a business, and that isn't what food should be about.

The Soviets had it right. But hey you don't have to take my word for it. Just look at the results! You "free market" morons are so stupid it's not even funny.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

Vitor — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:23:52 GMT

Private food production is all about money, how the hell the poor are not starving?

Private fashion industry is all about money, how the hell the poor are not naked?

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

SkepticalMetal — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:22:26 GMT

Good stuff comes from competition in the market, not from a bloated monopoly mafia which we jokingly call government. 'Nuff said

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

Maynard — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:21:07 GMT

Ragnar, put the link in regular characters and it will embed. Easiest way is to copy into notepad (I think Word will keep the link intact) and then recopy and paste it.

Re: We NEED public education, because education shouldn't be a business.

RagnarD — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:17:29 GMT

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Thanks Maynard, was rippin my hair out