Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Ranty Rant
Acidman is right. This is scary. How can any family let their children get past the age of, say, twelve, without a working knowledge and appreciation of the First Amendment?
This is what we get for allowing the government to be involved in education. At all. Perhaps Horace Mann ought to start appearing on those lists people come up with now and then of people who did the most to ruin the country.
One of the best ways to bring out the libertarian in me is to pine for more spending, especially federal spending, on education, so the communist teachers union can waste even more to undereducate, indoctrinate, and fail to challenge our kids to think like the rational beings they start out as before being shipped off to government brain sausage factories. The foolish think they want more and more of that. The irresponsible are relieved they can step back from their kid’s lives. The controllingly clever know exactly the why and what of public education, better still accompanied by increasing federal bucks and mandates, and happily use the foolish and irresponsible to ensure things get worse and worse.
Augh.