What have been the results of public education?

Given the terrible record of public "education", it is dubious whether any rational individual would voluntarily pay for it, if it were not "free." Of all the government interventions into people's lives, has any been as great a failure as the sad spectacle of public education? The drug addiction of teenagers unable to cope with reality (so they have no desire to face serious issues like this); student crime and violence (since they do not understand why it is wrong to initiate force against others, after all the government does); functional illiteracy of thousands (all the more important so they can't read this); and most importantly the inability to think in principle (so they will not know when the principle of their rights is being violated). These are the results of inserting the power of destruction (to be applied towards brutes and criminals) to an act of production -- education.


Has public education achieved its goal (the goal implied by its logic)?

In truth, public "free" education has achieved its goal perfectly -- it has turned a potential free-thinking child that will fight for freedom, into a adult incapable of abstract reasoning, that demands to be enslaved by the state. In fact, public education has done such a good job at this, that most people cannot imagine a society where public education does not exist.

Where in the 19th century America, parents had to be forced with bayonets to turn their children over to be indoctrinated into the concentration camps for the young -- public schools -- a century later, many parents turn in their children voluntarily -- and many even go so far as to demand that the state take them!

If any so called humanitarian is truly concerned about children and adults, then he will help free their minds and bodies from the ravages of the inhumane atrocities of a compulsory state "education."

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