George Washington was not educated beyond 14 years of age.
I'm not sure that education is all its cracked up to be. After all, how desperately do we need a lot of the classes that make the curriculum?
It's odd that sexual health classes came about at the same time as a huge increase in STDs, pre-marital births, and at-whim abortions. Based on the stats, one should be permitted to sugges that the class isn't worth the expense.
It's a phenomenon called puberty.
He hadn't the first clue on how to use a computer either. Guess that means we don't need them.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. The fact that sexual education classes came at the same time as the rest of the Sexual Revolution does not mean that sexual education caused it, or that it had no effect. For all we know, teenage sexuality or unwed pregnancy would be worse but for sexual education.
This is a canard. George Washington lived in what was essentially an agrarian society, and he was an upper-class figure whose informal education continued well into adulthood. Good luck supporting yourself in today's increasingly technical, increasingly specialized economy with only an eighth-grade education.
Since the George Washington comment was a reply to an assertion that compulsary education works, it should be seen as a statement that other things work, too.
Which they do, and very well.
Private, parochial, and home schooling appears to get better results than does public schooling.
Since there are alternatives that do as well, and since history shows alternatives that work as well, then FLEXIBILITY is only rational.