[EQAndyBuzz]

Two quotes sums up public education:

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
– Vladimir Lenin

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
– Joseph Stalin

[Tax-chick]

Oh, excellent work! I’m going to email those to Anoreth: she’s re-educating her entire ship’s crew as they putter about the Western Pacific. It’s very frustrating for her (but a good preparation to be a mother someday ;-).

[Peanut Gallery]

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
– Joseph Stalin

Wow. I never in a million years thought I would agree with Stalin on any point.

[Trailerpark Badass]

And another:

If you want to make something worthless, give it away for "free."

- Trailerpark Badass

And make no mistake, education has been systematically devalued in this country.

And by "education" I mean the setting of high standards and the expectation that students actually achieve something.

The greatest tragedy of public education is that we will never really know how much humanity has been held back because of it.