When the state runs the education show...
As you may have guessed yet - unless you're dumb - I'm in favour of privatising everything except the Holy Roman Catholic Church*.
Matt, that high priest of humour, has recently illustrated some of the dangers of state-run education, the worst aspect of which, in a state-dominated environment, is the fact that any centrally imposed folly turns into a weapon of mass mis-education and is bound to take its toll on millions and millions of kids with one stroke of a dumb minister's pen.
(Not that a privately-run environment would eliminate all dangers: it would simply limit their scale, so that they would affect fewer kids... among whom - I have to admit, looking at the cartoon - for a brief moment of an adolescent boy's weakness I longed to be...)
P.S. As a bonus (only for those who have read the post twice and at least tried to understand it):
*which is, it's just struck my silly head, privately-run already, and more privater than any other private property, actually the most privetest of all. Well, I must be dumbestest. I need to get more education, and not necessarily from Miss Roberts. (On the other hand...)
