[Borges]

Can one make a blanket statement like that? Jefferson and Horace Mann supported public education in the early to mid 19th century. The Puritans had a form of public education. Do you think public libraries are socialistic to the core?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Can one make a blanket statement like that?Jefferson and Horace Mann supported public education in the early to mid 19th century

And of course they were funded by the federal Government and controlled by the teachers unions too

[Las Vegas Ron]

Here's a sample 8th grade test, circa 1800:

http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2006/03/8th_grade_exami.html

[wintertime]

What is your solution?