05-12-2008, 04:30 AM
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Should education be mandatory and state-run?
A thread sort of got into a tangent onto the nature of education so here it is so far:
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Originally Posted by leviathon435
I think that mandatory state education is what all countries should have and is the best way of ensuring everyone gets a good education, however we're talking about a swimming class so she should be allowed to opt-out (or be opted-out).
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Originally Posted by shintao
When you hold a gun to families heads to force their children to learn, it's a bad thing. We shouldn't be in the business of forcing them to learn. That produces children who fight the system, distract school rooms, and hurt those that want to learn and want to be somebody.
We should be about making them want to learn - simply because they chose to have a good paying job in our technological society.
If they want to be screw ups, sell drugs, wash dishes, be a Big Mac salesmen ...let them. I am not sure how many screw ups a year fail to graduate and at some later point in time go after a GED - on their own power. The only thing they managed to do in school was disrupt those there to learn. IMO
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