Cedric Chang wrote:

> I am going to ask a couple of questions:   ( or maybe make statements )

Sounded more like statements :)

> 2)  Governments always foul up education.  

I don't know... I think the education I got in Germany was pretty good
(government). I also think the fact that everybody (independently of the
wealth of the parents) has access to the same good education is a pretty
good thing. In a system more based on private enterprise (like in the US
and Brazil), I probably wouldn't have had access to that. 

I'm not sure it makes sense, from a free market economy point of view, to
give people so vastly differing starting conditions as a private school
system provides. 

> And businesses will quickly realize that a "rounded" graduate is more  
> valuable.

That's doubtful. They sometimes have difficulty planning for longer than
the next quarter, much less the next quarter century.

> 3) Teacher's unions exist because the government protects them.  

In some countries, that may be the case. But is the US among these? How is
the US government protecting teacher's unions? 

Gerhard

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