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> Let me leave you with some quotes from the folks who set up the p.s. system
> of mandatory attendance schools in the U.S.:


Lynda, if government schools ever meet their demise, they will do so from 
some other reason than persuasion.  That's because, I'd say:

--Most of the vocal apologists for government education have a finger in the 
pie, or at least they did and still want to view themselves as having done 
social good rather than social harm.  It's as Upton Sinclair said, "It is 
difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon 
his not 
understanding it."

--Very few have been around other people (mostly children) in any numbers who 
have never been "schooled".  It's like you didn't know it was so noisy until 
it suddenly became quiet, you didn't know it was so warm in the room until 
you 
went out in the night air.  Behaving on the impulse of government schooling 
indoctrination is the nearly universal norm.  Adults for the most part are 
still doing it and this leads them to say, "I went to GS and I've done OK."  
Most 
other indoctrinated people, slaves, socialists, members of cults,  
capitalists 
(in the modern sense), say exactly the same thing. 

--Without government schools people would have to raise their own children.  
People have no intention of doing that, the paradigm is lost.  Hmmm. ... 
Paradigms Lost .. I wonder if that's taken.