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Education is what teaches you how to think, and how to life your life. Why would you want corporate executives making those decisions for us?

And you would want government making these decisions because ____?

Let us differentiate what we mean when we speak of education. Are you referring to higher education or basic education? I have differentiated between the two in my posts- I think it is a worthy distinction. A basic education teaches you how to think- or it should. It provides you with a foundation to be able to dissect the world around you and function in it. Higher education specializes your knowledge. It is this specialization that allows one to earn a large income- provided there is a niche in the industrial world for this knowledge.

Note too the time frame I am speaking of- the future. I'm talking decades from now. There is a feedback loop in technological advancement. This feedback loop is growing ever shorter. What will we do one day when everything you specialize in during a four year curriculum becomes obsolete? What will we do?

I have not suggested we do anything. I have stated this is an idea that has come to my mind. It has come to me based upon observations of current trends. A knowledge feedback loop that gets shorter and shorter, technological advance that comes faster and faster and the ponderous nature of the education system combine to yield a sure problem somewhere down the line. I offered it for discussion. You have said my ideas would be disastrous if implemented but you have not said why.

I have not offered anything radical. I have only noted that at least 25% of every school year is wasted on summer holiday and that more thorough education could be provided in the same time or that the same education could be provided in less time (leaving more time for higher education or an earlier entry into the work force/marketplace). Is pointing this out bad? I don't think so. Also, home schooling is a form of "market place solution for education". Private schooling is as well. If private schooling becomes widespread (the option that most people use) you can bet the farm that eventually corporations will eventually control that industry as well.

"A. Pole" stated earlier that labour was a commodity. I agree. Education is as well. Private solutions will inevitably be more efficient and productive than public ones. The takeover of education by the free market is practically assured in the end.