> Thomas wrote:
>
> > ... Capitalists did
> > not just GIVE free public education because they needed skilled
> > workers.
>
> I agree with you. Free education in public schools was a working-
> class demand, even a communist demand (it was one of the demands in
> the Communist Manifesto).
Yet China, communist for over half a century, does not have it. They are making some moves in the direction of cheaper education, but it is neither universal nor free, and not likely to be soon.
For a gov't description of the situation, see: http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/12/content_21869.htm
-- Sandy Harris Zhuhai, Guangdong, China