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Originally Posted by DRS112
again...it's not that it works there...because by many standards our education system SUCKS...as has been admitted by virtually everybody...it's that it's been deemed that education would be underproduced so that the demand for it cannot be met. That alot of the population could not afford education...and that an uneducated populace has externalties that add burdens onto society...
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Well public education grew out of the need for a well educated populace being necessary for a free and thinking people. We are neither anymore. Half of the eligible population doesn't vote. So why should my taxes go to pay for kids I don't have, to learn nothing ?