Thanks Little Hawk. Now apply the above thoughts to a discussion on another thread where I have been conversing with Steve Shaw on the merits of "Evolution vs. Intelligent Design." Steve maintains that it would be damaging, even dangerous, to teach anything but the "right" information. He doesn't trust students to come to the "right" conclusions if they are exposed to a competing theory. This is something that you will always find in state sponsored education because the state's objective is always thought control. We all know what happens to teachers who teach competing or "controversial" theories or points of view. In this way, public schools reject critical thinking in favor of spoon feeding students "correct" information which they must subsequently regurgitate, barely chewed, to prove that they "know" it. If you get a teacher like Socrates, you're likely to get he or she as a professor in college where there is more academic freedom.