The fact that publically funded education did not exist until one hundred years after our nations founding should tell us something. This along with the fact the most prestigious seats of educations at secondary, university and graduate levels are private should tell us even more. Private education it now seems trumps anything that government can muster, except perhaps those destined for gladitorial combat in professional sports.
My generation came to believe that education, and not virtue, was the most important commodity for purchase. It is for this reason that parents often work so hard to put children "through school." In return large numbers of my generation heap scorn upon their parents by not providing grand children, which is what those parents really wanted in the first place.
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