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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Are you pro-choice on education? (was Re: Pro-)
- Message-ID: <90638@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:54:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.085205.20986@wetware.com> <casivils.727566210@node_508ba> <1993Jan21.004906.26636@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan21.201613.27707@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <zlsiida.838@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
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- In <zlsiida.838@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
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- |The best education is at the best school...in any given geographical area,
- |only one school can be the best, so evrybody would choose that one - but it'
- |s too small to take all, so some don't get their choice.
- |This is the problem with your idea of choice - it actually denies choice to
- |more people than it gives choice.
- |So it's fairer to have one school system for everybody and strive to make it
- |equally good evrywhere, and a damn sight better than it now is in most
- |places.
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- Actually there can be many best schools. This will of course depend on
- which attribute of schooling each set of parents consider to be the most
- important.
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- But even if there is only one best school. That school can still expand,
- and the other schools can still do their best to emulate what they think
- made that one school the best.
-
- One size fits all solutions usually end up offending everybody.
- --
- Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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