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To: snarks_when_bored
Thanks for this: Jerry Coyne gave us a real gem of a quote!
No group, no matter how large or small, may use the organs of government, of which the public schools are the most conspicuous and influential, to foist its religious beliefs...

He makes the best case I've ever heard, in the fewest words, why the public school system should be abolished.

7 posted on 09/08/2005 1:38:34 PM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel
He makes the best case I've ever heard, in the fewest words, why the public school system should be abolished.

Yes ... or at a minimum, abolish the teaching of macro evolution religious indoctrination in the classrooms.

22 posted on 09/08/2005 1:48:46 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Shalom Israel
He makes the best case I've ever heard, in the fewest words, why the public school system should be abolished.

And your alternative for educating millions of young people is...?

24 posted on 09/08/2005 1:49:19 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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