Education? Why should that be socialized? Why not at least limit it to the individual district, as is now done. I think it would be an interesting experiment to see what would happen if it were totally privatized. It looks like fair game for socialization because there is a common vocabulary that all students must learn. In addition to this, though, there is a very insidious commonality of thought which percolates through a socialized education system, which can be manipulated much to the detriment of the scholars.

THe idea of learning being managed by the lowest common denominator is pretty awful, if you ask me. And that tends to happen in socialized systems where there is little or no incentive for excellence.

I think we are better off somehow organizing around individual excellence. To some degree private charities do this. I don't have any quick and easy answers,. but I would sure be careful about organizing principles.

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