An educated society is a vibrant growing society. The vast majority of parents would NOT educate their children without government mandates. Certainly higher education, both Government run Universities and private Universities would NOT be anything like they are today. Pure research would be nil, and society would be agriculture based.
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“An educated society is a vibrant growing society.”
I agree. I never said anything against education in itself.
“The vast majority of parents would NOT educate their children without government mandates.”
Untrue. The vast majority of parents want good things for their children and want them to have better lives then they themselves had.
“Certainly higher education, both Government run Universities and private Universities would NOT be anything like they are today.”
You mean exalted vocational schools that don’t really educate men and women but prolong the adolescence of teens well into adulthood while training them to be clerks? Yeah, you’re right. They could be better than that.
“Pure research would be nil, and society would be agriculture based.”
No. The industrial revolution started in this country BEFORE mandatory education - it was in fact dependent upon the cheap labor of children. Sad to say, but true. Also, pure research would still have been carried out, but it would have been performed by wealthy scions from aristocratic or mercantile families.
I am all for education. I just don’t like my government involved in it since it isn’t part of the original constitutional mandate.