[arthurus]

Public Education is the reason we are at this pass. It cannot be reformed and there isn o constituency to end it.Even were it perfectly reformed and the real teachers could be instantly trained properly to staff it it would be a generation before the effects would affect the society. We don't have a generation. We can no more return to an independent minded populace than the Gazans can become one because in both cases many generations of children have bee educatedtrained without history, without civics, without any appreciation for Liberty.Without History people can too easily believe that any scheme dreamed up by their "betters" is possible and will support any Utopia that is presented to them. They are easy to lead by the nose. We cannot get it back short of moving to a relatively uninhabited new land and starting over without effective interference from the established systems. If interstellar travel were to suddenly become cheap, perhaps...

[hal ogen]

Is this country still great or what? You can have everything without any effort, risk or responsibility. Truly, the LIB-morons have brought us Nirvana. All praise the nobama... I apologize for all the 8000+ posts I have made on FR.