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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: How does education help all of us? Reply to Sykora
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 01:02:00 EDT
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>/* muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) /  8:01 pm  May  4, 1985 */
articles...
>Yes, education is a good thing.  I don't know that it should be paid for by
>goverment, but it does seem to me that if someone can't afford to have their
>children educated, this is no reason to penalize those children.  Also, it

Penalize is an action verb, i.e., it implies the presence of a penalizer.
Who is the penalizer here?

>It seems to me that the concern should not be over how much is *spent* on
>education, but how much is *wasted* because no one really seems to know

Why?

>(as has been mentioned here) proper handling of guns.
>reasonable sex education.
>some unbiased surveys of religious and political systems (I wish I
>had learned a lot more about these things earlier)
>some nutrition and health information
>practical cooking

What I don't want my children to learn these things?

						Michael Sykora