Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: trained dependency

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden>

    > Quote from that page: "Perhaps the greatest of school's illusions is
    > that the institution was launched by a group of kindly men and women who
    > wanted to help the children of ordinary families—to level the playing
    > field, so to speak."

What's the a priori argument against public schools rather than the
historic one?

While historically, public schools may (or may not) have an ugly
origin, /some/ today have certainly evolved into great institutions.
Intuitively, public education has a lot of appeal for me: partly
because the idea of a coherent "public space" has a lot of appeal and
schools seem like a place to manufacture that;  partly because public
schools are (potentially!) very economically efficient.

So, is there something /inherent/ in public schooling that makes it
evil?

-t