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From: baba@flairvax.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: education
Message-ID: <837@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 14:12:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 14:12:40 1984
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>	Are there really people out there who DON'T think that free
>enterprise , CAN teach our kids , faster , better , and for about
>1/3 the price the bureaucrats charge ?

There was once a consensus in this society that *everyone* benefits
from universal education. Free public education has been one of the
great wellsprings of economic opportunity and social mobility in this 
country.  If public funding for education is ceased, it seems almost
certain that the children of the poor will remain ignorant and poor,
and the childern of the rich will be groomed to take Daddy's place
at the top of the neofeudalist heap.  Is that the kind of world in 
which we want to live?

					Baba