Quote: Originally posted by G. Adams@09-18-2003 09:59 PM
Although I don't see education as the key, if everybody was just as well educated they would still pay the street sweeper shit wages despite the PhD in physics, I see it as entirely neccesary for democracy. For example, the US 2000 election. You gotta see past charisma here, Gore may be boring but he isn't an idiot either. | Heh, either you have a poor idea of what education entails, or you've inadvertently pointed out that the US is following the stead of Roman decline - no new philosophers, but plenty of good engineers...
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |