The purpose of state education
“A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare,” the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.
That is the purpose of state education. There are many well meaning people who seek to give all a good education, which is a noble aim, but the ends of state education are the same the world over, as we are seeing today in the UK.
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March 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
You don’t see anything resembling that in say, a college. You are over-generalising.
Even in the most obedient of primary schools, the vast majority of what children do there will involve nothing of the sort.