Keith Hudson wrote: > At 17:35 06/10/2010 -0400, REH wrote: > >When education went private and students began paying the actual bill then > >college became impossible for the poor. > > You have things the wrong way round. Education was private from the very > beginning. Think of the gymnasia of ancient Greece. Think of the grammar > schools of Medieval England. My own old school, Bablake, started as a > gift from Queen Isabella for a dozen poor boys of Coventry (free board,
Oh well, Keith's Anglo-centrism again... Guess what, the world does not only consist of England (and Bismarck's Germany). In modern countries, education IS public, and it was only Thatcherism that rolled it back to privatization. So REH is absolutely right on this one. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
