Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
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On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:26, Rich Johnson was heard to say:
> On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> > [...snip...]
> > Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing
> > very well indeed without coercive "public" schooling.
> > [...snip...]
>
> That's a bit of an oxymoron.
Not in the terms of the discussion.
> The poor were hardly "doing well" if they were poor. _How_ well
> were they doing (in your book, that is)?
The discussion is in terms of education. Literacy.
The literacy rate of 90%+ prior to compulsory schooling includes poor.
Just as the literacy rate of 50%- at this time includes poor.
Interesting that you would use the phrase, "in your book", considering
that what is being discussed is the utter failure of people to learn
to read after more than a hundred years of "expert" schooling.
Curt-
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