I’m currently reading a book that is chock-full of great quotes and thoughtful passages I’d love for a lot of people to be exposed to. This snippet is not necessarily the most compelling, but merely the latest one I’ve come across … please correct me if I ever employ the term “public school” again!
If the government’s education system–like so much of what the federal bureaucracy touches–is such a disaster, then why do we turn our children over to it for their entire youths? Lots of reasons, starting with the name–“public school.” They are government schools, but we call them “public.” What a difference a word makes! Public sounds open, transparent, free, and wholesome, while government sounds compulsory, bureaucratic, wasteful, and hostile to freedom. The mere use of the word public is a powerful and deceptive marketing tool of governments all over the world. Public land sounds inviting while government land makes us feel like serfs.
From: The Marketing of Evil: how radicals, elitists, and pseudo-experts sell us corruption disguised as freedom by David Kupelian. |
