08-04-2009, 04:59 PM
Quote:I'm not advocating that there is no role for government in insuring that education be of high quality and universal, however, it's just the world has experienced repeatedly the relationship between price, quality and competitiveness in the manufacturing arena. I believe that if education were to allow their workers to be competitive, then you would see wages increase, but that would also mean that parents should be responsible for paying the price for their children's education.
Thing is, it's not quite as bleak as the car analogy would indicate. While I've yet to hear governments successfully putting BMWs or ferries together, my understanding is that back in the day when it was actually funded, high school education was actually pretty decent.
Of course, I could be completely wrong on that last point.