From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!uw-june!emma
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: RE:EDUCATION AS A RIGHT
Article-I.D.: uw-june.145
Posted: Wed Oct 27 11:03:49 1982
Received: Thu Oct 28 06:09:32 1982
References: cwruecmp.208

''Basic'' education is a right, ''advanced'' education is not.  This is why
there is a *public* school system providing basic education.  The reason
Mr/Ms High School Grad is currently at a disadvantage in obtaining employment
is the mistaken notion over the past 20-30 years or so that a B.S. is
somehow a right.  The education afforded a typical liberal arts major is in
no way superior in affording real-live jobbable skills than is the education
provided in high school.

The (valid) argument for public colleges is not based on a right to education,
but on a need for trained people in excess of the numbers which can afford
a private college.

Finally, even if you wish to argue that a college education is a right, you
most assuredly can not argue that an education at a private college is one.
Were good old UW to require PC's of all incoming frosh, without providing
financial assistance, the outrage would probably be justified.  A private
college can require (almost) anything they wish of their students, regardless
of the effect on the cost of their education.  If they can't afford it, they
should be at a state school.
-Joe P.