<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003><SPAN class=687465314-20102003>Charles Brown: </SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003>"The purpose of public education has always been to prepare most people to do jobs for which not much literacy is needed. The American officials of education have had to design schools to produce poor or failed literacy in most, otherwise the above dilemma would arise."</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003>I tend to agree, and would say the same of private education as well, only there kids are groomed to schmooze and network like their parents, who, in my experience, did it in the hallways of the school after dropping off their kids.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003>I mean, what kind of corporate social order would want to encourage independent thinking at the grade school or middle school levels? The kids are to be shaped as either manager bees or worker bees, which is why any attempt at the college level to break free of this mindset is attacked by the right as "politicizing" the academy, etc. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=687465314-20102003>DP</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>