[Dat Mon]

"We have to make education a national movement."

I agree entirely.

But think about what you are suggesting....that a national movement has to step in CORRECT deficiencies in the market approach to education.

This my friend...is the essence of the debate on economics that is playing out in countless threads on this site.

Is the market supreme, always..in all cases?

Or do we have national priorities which must step in...as they did in World War II when the government 'suggested' that GM stop making cars and trucks and start making tanks?

[durasell]

"America always makes the right decision, after it's exhausted all other possibilities." -- Winston Churchill (slightly paraphrased)

The market is infallible, but the market is not American and it's not moral. And, to be perfectly frank, I don't care. What we need to do is hunt these kids out that have a proclivity and talent for science/technology. You're gonna find them in slums and suburbs and rural areas. You hunt them out and give them scholarships to first rate schools to develop their talents.

Now I'm gonna be called a "socialist" and a "Marxist" and maybe Ann Coulter will show up on my door and beat me about the head with a baseball bat as Rush pokes me with a pointy stick.