Modern compulsory schooling has little to do with the lessons on the blackboard.
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
Where did you learn that training in a foreign languages is important, and that the inculcation of morality is relatively unimportant? (Yes, that’s what you said, in so many words.)
Morality is by far the most important lesson. I simply believe that kids will be exposed to good and bad morals no matter what. It is comparatively easy for involved parents to correct moral lessons that the schools get wrong - if parents try - but impossible for most of us to teach languages (and many other subjects) well.
The above is an astute observation!
Yes, indeed! Where did Pollster learn that languages were important but values are relatively unimportant in a child's formal education? Where did Nifster learn that it was somehow impossible to learn science without fancy labs, or that parents could not direct higher level mathematics without achieving that level themselves?
Somewhere Pollster wrongly picked up the idea that government schooling doesn't teach values. NONSENSE! It is impossible to have a culturally, religiously, and politically neutral education. That means **values**. Government schooling is utterly godless in its worldview and that means that the curriculum and policies of government schools have plenty of non-neutral cultural, political, and religious content and consequences.