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Private schools, that teach exactly what the market wants them to teach. This would not include Patriotic indoctrination though, for example. Besides, how many

Private schools, that teach exactly what the market wants them to teach. This would not include Patriotic indoctrination though, for example. Besides, how many percent of everything you're taught at school do you actually find interesting? -We all learn what we want to learn, and that's about it. In a free society, people would just get exactly the kind of education they actually want.

sanoli 13y ago
And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important?
- anoncowherd 13y ago
  It's everyone's own personal choice what they want to learn, if anything. Everyone's responsible for their choices, and marketable skills can be acquired through experience and practice, even without any particular schooling.
  - tokenizer 13y ago
    Nope! You need this piece of paper you see? And, you'll need to give us $25,000 to get it. /s
- tokenizer 13y ago
  > And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important? I suppose YOU know what's better for them right? The argument is founded on the morals that people should be given freedom, along with the benefits and responsibilities that entails. Most of our 5,000+ years of known history had no public schooling and constant albeit slow progress. If you're trying to say you're morally obligated the threaten to take my children away from me because I/them decide their education is acceptable, even if YOU view it as none, then ask yourself if this exact same discussion would still be defended by yourself if we were living in the DPRK under harsh and oppressive control by our government. Thats the main difference really between individualists and collectivists thought. You think we're stupid, and we think you're evil. The government of the US or Canada ISN'T the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but to me, it could be. All we need are less individual rights, and more dependence on a nanny state that thinks it knows what's best for me. You may choose safety, but I'd rather choose Liberty. My option permits yours. Does your mine?
  - anoncowherd 13y ago
    It seems we're mostly on the same page :p

sanoli 13y ago

And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important?

anoncowherd 13y ago
It's everyone's own personal choice what they want to learn, if anything. Everyone's responsible for their choices, and marketable skills can be acquired through experience and practice, even without any particular schooling.
- tokenizer 13y ago
  Nope! You need this piece of paper you see? And, you'll need to give us $25,000 to get it. /s
tokenizer 13y ago
> And if some children don't want to get any education, and their parents are ok with it, or just too poor to care or deem it important? I suppose YOU know what's better for them right? The argument is founded on the morals that people should be given freedom, along with the benefits and responsibilities that entails. Most of our 5,000+ years of known history had no public schooling and constant albeit slow progress. If you're trying to say you're morally obligated the threaten to take my children away from me because I/them decide their education is acceptable, even if YOU view it as none, then ask yourself if this exact same discussion would still be defended by yourself if we were living in the DPRK under harsh and oppressive control by our government. Thats the main difference really between individualists and collectivists thought. You think we're stupid, and we think you're evil. The government of the US or Canada ISN'T the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but to me, it could be. All we need are less individual rights, and more dependence on a nanny state that thinks it knows what's best for me. You may choose safety, but I'd rather choose Liberty. My option permits yours. Does your mine?
- anoncowherd 13y ago
  It seems we're mostly on the same page :p