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a founding principle is not everyone is of equal ability. The founding principle equality of opportunity. The government won't hold you back because you are a (
by abfan1127 4y ago
a founding principle is not everyone is of equal ability. The founding principle equality of opportunity. The government won't hold you back because you are a (peasant|lower caste|other arbitrary decision). i.e. Everyone gets to go to school, but not everyone learns the same (qualitatively or quantitatively).
- wonnage 4y agoDon't you think the government deciding you're not fit for going to college would fall into this problem?
- rhexs 4y agoThe government wouldn’t prevent you from going to college, it just wouldn’t voluntarily pay for you to go if you didn’t test well. You could pay your own way, seek external scholarships, etc. As of now we effectively underwrite anyone who wants to go, often at the expense of the student racking up debt for a useless degree and later the taxpayer who will inevitably have to subsidize them.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoWhen I went to public school in a privileged neighborhood, the "honors" track was opt-in for the parents and students. I don't think you have to go straight from "the government shouldn't decide whether you are fit for college" (which I agree with) to "there should only be one curriculum for everyone."
- jollybean 4y ago'Equal opportunity' is not a 'founding principle'. Just that they are 'equal' i.e. before God, or before the Law. That one man is not from some superior lineage, that makes him a superior being. I would be the founding fathers would have no problem if one man decided to 'discriminate' among others for some arbitrary reason - even if they were landholding men of high status etc..