Education is certainly a factor affecting career achievement, but individual liberty is the one, indispensable ingredient of true prosperity.
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Barack Obama rose to be president of the United States in spite of the fact, as he light-heartedly admitted to Jay Leno, that he struggles with high school math. In contrast to this reality, Obama, our governor and our current state school board all want us to believe that if we care about the success of the rising generation, we must not resist the unprecedented tracking of our children and the concentration of all educational doctrine into the hands of a few.
The end will justify the means, we are told, and these conditions are necessary to truly improve education and the future of our nation.
This is a dangerous fallacy. Education is certainly a factor affecting career achievement, but individual liberty is the one, indispensable ingredient of true prosperity. To preserve and promote prosperity, "we the people" must require that any policy to improve education does not erode individual liberty.
Alyson Williams
Spanish Fork
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Alyson,
You were free to write this letter, but until you had the skills taught to you, you truly were not able to do so.
Education IS a part of freedom, plain and simple.
kathyn
Actually, as I get older and read more and more about the Founding Fathers, I realize that WE were taught the sanitized version of their stories. That is not downgrading what they did, but humanizing the truth. I prefer the truth More..
Good letter, Alyson. Detractors want to pretend you didn't emphasize the importance of education, but you did. That being said, nothing is more fundamental to a vital education system than liberty. The Soviet Union had a good education system, More..