-=> On 11-14-97  23:02, Robert Plett did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Robert Craft concerning [1/2] education beauracra <=-
 RC> RP> I readily grant that, IMO, literacy is *extremely*
 RC> RP> important, but it is not my business or yours what my
 RC> RP> neighbor decides in that regard with his own children.
 RC> RP> Mandate it as you endorse, and it's tyranny, pure and
 RC> RP> simple.
 
 RC> Oh? Billions dream of such tyranny - the mandate that they
 RC> be provided the opportunity to learn.
 RP> Opportunity is one thing, mandates is another.  I said at
 RP> the outset that it's perfectly appropriate for government
 RP> to encourage education, and providing opportunity is a
 RP> reasonable way to do that.  My objections are to the
 RP> compulsory nature of the mandates you endorse.  No matter
 RP> how you slice it, dice it, or rationalize it, it is
 RP> government tyranny, the antithesis of what this nation's
 RP> founding and the creation of its Constitution were about,
 RP> and will *always* be abused, as the public school system in
 RP> this country has proven so magnificently. 
You're distorting the issue. Nowhere did I suggest that the
goverment mandate education in the public school system. I
specifically stated the mandate was simply that the child
*be* educated. Whether that education be done in public,
private, parochial or home school remains the choice of the
parents. 
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