Thomas Paine famously said, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly," and that certainly applies to public schools. The children around the world who would eagerly accept a chance to get a useful education currently do not have access to one, and thus recognize the value of it.
Why don't American kids get it?
Although it's convenient to believe that it is because children in other countries are more wise than our children, it may just be because they do not have it -- and because they are not forced into it.
When you must forcibly remove freedoms in order to teach the value of it, impressionable teenagers will learn more by your actions -- that they have no rights concerning their persons that they can act upon -- than by what you're saying -- that their rights are unalienable and should be stridently safeguarded.
But the preservation of liberty is the desired result of any popular education.
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The public school system need to raise the self-esteem level of our younger ones.
Dos and don'ts only go so far.
Young students need to be instilled with greatness which, in turn, inspires them to do great things and more easily find their own purpose, in life.
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