Originally Posted by Taltos

The public school system is crap because it was meant to be. It was built that way. I was institutionalized to be that way. Education is, like any other commodity, built around business. Private education is made to create leaders and thinkers and people of greatness, for those capable of affording it. Public education is created to produce supporters and underlings -- people who are told how to think and what to do and strive to do everything they are told within certain deadlines. The fact that the public education system can do anything but produce armies of mindless drones is a testament to the willpower of those who have tried to change things, for good or for ill.