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limpyhobbler

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3. I hadn't even thought of it that way.

Reply to antiquie (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:49 PM

Mar 2013

I was just thinking of it as a typical "shock and privatize" scheme. But yes there is also the other angle of whether the elite class wants the peons to really receive an education. And who should control education. Should we run it by democracy, or should we run it like a business? Good point.

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