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From: chapman@fornax.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Who pays for education - company towns
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 03:35:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 03:35:01 1987
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<innaccurate analogy with company towns>
 
> The real problem with Mr. Chapman's scheme revolves around the fact that
> the government (through subsidies and these easy loans while you stay in
> the country) keeps a monopoly on the educational system.  If you want an
> education, and you aren't rich enough for it, you are trapped into a system
> very similar to the company town described above.

In case you haven't noticed the government does have a monopoly on
education (of course you can always do what one of the Socred cabinet
minisers did and write away to Calif. for an MBA - snicker).

> 
> If education were privately owned, with no government controls, then
> it would be a different story.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How true, then only the wealthy could afford a decent education.
Try and check in with reality sometime Brad.  Look at the tuition
fees of good private universities in the US and then compare them
to fees at publicly controlled institutions (particularily here).

> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473

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