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Thursday, April 03, 2003
A crucial precedentOn my SATN blog, I just posted about how today's economic weakness of US Education is being used to attempt to establish a dangerous new idea. The idea that our best means of dissemination of speech and knowledge should be controlled by corporate owners, outside of the limits of the government, threatens the foundations of our nation. A dangerous bait is being dangled in front of the education community - sell out principle for a few bucks, help the corporations capture it all, and your short-term budget financial problems will be helped a little. Of course tomorrow, when all education is privatized, so the heirs of the wealthy are the only ones who can study... well, feudalism worked, didn't it? A few of the commoners even got picked as favorites of the lord, and could become part of the educated minority. This couldn't be the NeoConservative Agenda, could it? Surely all those poor people could scrape up a few bucks to send their kids to Yale if they really valued education? After all, our current president made all he could out of his hard-won education, burning the candle at both ends, always a difficult book under his probing eyes, debating his teachers in deep matters... OK. It's really not that bad. The poor people who won't be educated will be called terrorists if they protest. Who wants to educate terrorists?
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