Please read the thread!
The public school system did not exist in this country in any form similar to what exists today until the mid to late 19th century. I posted a link that has the whole history of the public school system.
You're the only one repeating unsupported propaganda.
I only call people stupid when they say stupid things - like the quote above.
You clearly haven't bothered to read the thread, idiot!
Where did you learn that rights are a matter of opinion?
Let me guess!
Public School!
That doesn't make it wrong.
Only stupid, former public school students would think this is an argument. That is not an argument, its an assertion and a completely unsupported one at that.
Educating people is a service just like any other service. There is no reason to believe that the private market place wouldn't do a better job of performing this service than the government does. In fact, there is every reason to believe that the government does a terrible job of educating people! The public school system sucks by virtually any metric you care to name!
It's just like government is with anything else. The can't stand for someone to have anything better than anyone else because its not fair, so they get involved and make sure that everyone is equally mediocre or miserable. The public school system is as good an example as any and, if we don't stop it, the government will do the same the the health care system as well.
This idiotic statement presumes that if it has never been done (or isn't being done elsewhere), it cannot be done at all. If that logic were valid, this country would never have been founded in the first place.
This country is the counter example I offer you. There was no nation wide compulsory public educational system in the country that was funded by taxes nor regulated by the government until the mid to late 1800's. Public education was not responsible for the education of the greatest American's that ever lived. Men like, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, J.D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, etc, etc, etc.
I agree with the argument 100% and I have no qualms about admitting that I could not have articulated it as well as Rand did. Further, an important point of having quoted Rand is the fact that she was a strident atheist and thus it removes from you the opportunity to blow the argument off as "religious".
I can't tell you didn't bother to read it. Any other posts from you that do not directly respond to Rand's argument will most likely go ignored. You're a waste of my time.
Resting in Him,
Clete
