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JayhawkSD

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3. I agree that, perhaps, no such right exists, but, BUT...

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:55 AM

Apr 2016

...whether such a right exists or not, it is in the best interest of any society to provide such education, and deeply stupid not to. A well educated population makes better decisions regarding governance in a democracy, and creates a vastly highly greater level of prosperity in any economy which is not totalitarian.

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