Elf Sternberg

In retrospect I think that post was a bit precipitous.

I pride myself on continuously questioning my assumptions, and in this case, I didn't do that well enough.

My mistaken assumption in this case was that the dominance of education by the State was some kind of metaphysical given. It isn't, of course.

So I'd like to revise my comments by pointing out that the even more important problem is that most parents don't accept or fulfill their responsibility to manage the education of their own children.

If more parents did the right thing, it wouldn't really matter that teachers suck.

But of course, most parents have been told that the State is responsible for raising their children, and once the society has been through a couple of generations of this kind of brainwashing, it's pretty much too late.

And we all know who's behind this whole Nanny State thing-- teachers and the evil politicians who support them.

So I'm really back to the same problem, but I think I got there more honestly this time.

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