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Old 05-12-2008, 11:25 AM
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Education isn't something that people "deserve" or are "entitled to." Besides, there are different kinds of education and we shouldn't dismiss them just because we think "education" means the garbage with which governments indoctrinate their citizens' children. Also, intelligence has very little, if anything, to do with education - education doesn't make someone more intelligent and lack of education doesn't make someone less intelligent.
I would disagree. People are "entitled to" an education as education is freedom, without it people are easily manipulated and controled and reduced to slaves that aren't even allowed to think for themselves.
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