> Who among us is not a product of such a system?
>
> I'll start: me, public primary and secondary, elite private college, "public
> Ivy" grad school. Of the three, the elite private was best.
Yup. My Catholic educations were by far the best, and I don't think the public ones were that terrible.
But to me approaching it in this way, of proclaiming that you managed to emerge from the education system, has a distinctly grumpy ring: if it was good enough for me, it's good enough for kids today.
The public
> primary and secondary was the worst, but despite that, I'd still prefer that
> to some sort of "unschooling," which just strikes me as some Rousseau-ish
> fantasy about the development of the primal self.
If you think I'm calling for the destruction of the educational system and a return to our true natures, I've communicated badly.
> If I had $28,000 a year,
> I'd love to send my kid to St Ann's. Elite private quality for all!
Maybe a good place to start with education reform would be to get rid of spurious notions equality, even those that invert leftist dogma.