Re: [Phys-L] Economist Kern Alexander Explains the Problem with School Choice

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2013, Feb 04, , at 14:27, Ze'ev Wurman <zeev@ieee.org> wrote:

>  Neither has a "strong component of monarchy" but both are strongly hierarchical …

Huh?    An oxymoron?

and

> Actually fascism, in its primacy of state over the individual, is not an extreme form of "social control gone wild" and had been tried in one form or another for centuries. Modern mass media and mass educational system just allowed it to become ever more encompassing and controlling, and ever harder to resist. 


bc  remembers D. Webster's definition:  "Education is a wise and liberal form of police by which property and life and peace of society are secured."  


p.s.  Which is worse, Brave New World, or 1984?