I don't have the patience that you do. It must be the result of public schooling. ;)
I can't be bothered to speak about this topic with people, who like me, suffered public education. To suggest that state-wide/nationwide education-prison system isn't the best setup causes others to give me strange stares save the staunchest libertarians and anarchists.
The school system teaches us first and foremost that it is the best education system. I can't imagine an institution better designed for self-preservation than the current style of public education in the west.
> The school system teaches us first and foremost that it is the best education system.
Literally no one ever claimed that, or so much as implied that, a single year of my own public schooling. Or, for that matter, at my son's.
It's a good thing too, as it would have been obviously a flawed argument (we can't all be the "#1 School" so someone is not getting the best). Even the most clueless of administrators can figure out that the kids would figure that out.
Likewise I don't see PTA members going around with an agenda full of "NOTHING TO DO. THE SCHOOL IS PERFECT TODAY". So it seems to me that more than the libertarians and anarchists seem to agree that we don't yet have the best setup.
Don't get me wrong but I have to wonder where these strawmen come from. Surely there's enough actually wrong with public schooling today that we don't have to stoop to anthropomorphic analogies that are trivially provided counterexamples?
E.g. you could argue that public schools are probably bad for those who are talented but anti-authoritarian. I'm sure most of us could agree with that (even if we couldn't all think up proper solutions).
Literally no one ever claimed that, or so much as implied that, a single year of my own public schooling.
No one did imply it in their comments. People just tend to live this way.
Likewise I don't see PTA members going around with an agenda full of "NOTHING TO DO. THE SCHOOL IS PERFECT TODAY"
No. They complain about snacks and football practice. PTAs would never do something like band together and defy/take down the DoE. The schools just say that they're subordinate to it, and that is that. Next topic: are there enough emergency eye wash stations?
I can't be bothered to speak about this topic with people, who like me, suffered public education. To suggest that state-wide/nationwide education-prison system isn't the best setup causes others to give me strange stares save the staunchest libertarians and anarchists.
The school system teaches us first and foremost that it is the best education system. I can't imagine an institution better designed for self-preservation than the current style of public education in the west.