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“Public education is welfare” ... Unfortunately most do not see this...even most conservatives.

Amazing, isn't it? Public education is paid by our tax dollars, and distributed without regard for whether or not we paid taxes, yet some find it hard to recognize as welfare.

Many conservatives feel entitled to it because they pay income, sales, and property taxes, but if so, why stop there? Why don't they sign up for food stamps, heating assistance, that free cell phone, free medical and dental, and cash assistance? Their taxes are paying for those things too.

One could quit that second job, spend more time at home with the kids, counteracting the damage inflicted by public education...and be paid for it!

Best of all: one can still pay sales taxes. Take some govt cash and shop! shop! shop! It's so deliciously entitling.

I think that this has to do with the fact that most people, including conservatives have been “educated” in the public school system. I have taught many times that our ideas lead to our actions which then lead to the consequences. Since the school system is based on a set of wrong ideas we will eventually make wrong actions which then lead to where we are now...in the consequences.

I just finished reading about something like this as it relates to John Dewey and how he thought about freedom...his idea is much different then what you or I would think of freedom. The article I just read today was titled “John Dewey: Philospher of Relativism” that is in the March 2010 issue of “The Schwarz Report” (I was cleaning out my files and came across this issue that I had miss filed). It is a reprint of an article originally printed in the “National Review” December 31, 2009. I would think you would find the article interesting if you can find it.