[When do we get liberated?]

Pretty simplistic and ridiculous, I was the jock goofball drunk above average student. If you told me I could just not go to school, I would have left. I would have had more time to work on my street rods, but I would be a far less productive member of society. The education I got in an upper class suburban Boston atmosphere has done me well. I was always an avid reader, but I generally disdained formal education. What I needed for the future was forced upon me, and that was not a bad thing in retrospect.How much disipline would a child tearn if it was not forced upon them? My brothers and sisters were brought up in a strict household, I came later and was let to do as I pleased after about 16 yrs old. It is not a wonder that my older siblings got over their adolesence by the time they graduated college. I got over mine around 30 yrs old. Kids, like puppies need to be coerced into the right way of living.

[Alberta's Child]

Nothing ridiculous about it. The things you "needed" may have been forced upon you, but there was no reason for taxpayers to foot the bill for it.

I would go even further than what I said before -- and suggest that the very idea of "public education" is completely incompatible with a free country.