Re: Some Thought On Intelligent Design - WAS: OT Is George Bush Drinking?

Just a short reply to some of your comments (I wanna get outta
here)...

On 07 Oct 2005 10:15:58 EDT, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Renata wrote:
>
>> What's your proposal for educatin' the populace, pray tell?
>
>Why do I have to have one? I don't have a proposal for instilling
>religion in everyone else's children. I don't have a proposal for
>clothing everyone else's children. I don't have a proposal for
>inflicting particular personal values on everyone else's chidren. These,
>and a host of other things, are the job of the *parents* not a
>meddlesome program of public theft and wealth redistribution. Government
>as an instrument of education is analogous to having Michael Jackson run
>a day-camp for 12 year old boys.

Education is the responsibility of parents only as far as making sure
the kids get a good one. Most parents aren't gonna be capable, have
time, etc. to sit down every ady and teach their kids.

Wealth redistribution we'll cover next time.
>
>
>>
>> 'Course, the way things are going, all they're gonna be needing is
>> proper diction of "you wan' fries wif that"?
>
>That's, in part, because the highly-vaunted public education system has
>turned into a political madrassas to indoctrinate its victims, er, I
>mean students. Public education has become an enabler for irresponsible
>parents, incompetent teachers, and indulged children. There is an old,
>and very true, saying: If you want less of something, tax it. If you
>want more if something, subsidize it. By that measure, we are subsidizing
>irresponsibility, incompetence, and laziness and the results are all
>around us.
>

The fact that the education system is broken (in many ways) doesn't
mean AN education system isn't needed. Just like the answer to poor
schools should be to fix the schools rather than give vouchers, the
answer to problems in the education system aren't to disolve it
entirely.

A well educated (and informed) populace is needed for a properly
functioning democracy among many other reasons. You wanna have the
rugrats running around illiterate, time on their hands, etc.?

R
>
>>
>> Renata
>>
>> On 06 Oct 2005 04:15:59 EDT, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> -snip-
>>
>>>we can fix the school
>>>board problem by (very properly) getting rid of tax-funded education.
>>
>>

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