Yes: and that means there are very few decent societies in our world
(Canada has Health Care more or less, but education is not free).
The better educated will pay society back I'd think, almost always (if
only just by being better educated & so better able to do the work
that makes a society, well, work).
Alas, most advanced late capitalist societies dont have an concern for
the collective that society should be (cf Thatcher's take on that).
Doug
On 22-Jan-10, at 3:27 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> I might be reading the comment below completely out of context but
> it still needs responding to. In any decent society that can afford
> it education should be free, like health care.
>
> Tim A.
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