Plato on Education

It appears that Plato would have taken a rather dim view of what we’re doing here in the United States.

There is no doubt that American education is in decline, but there is a lively debate as to why that is.  Some social critics, e.g., the late George Carlin, say that it’s a deliberate attempt to make sure that the middle-class, while capable of working in our factories and grocery stores, are incapable of understanding how badly they’ve gotten screwed by the wealthy.

Another theory is that it all is simply the result of the neoliberalism that came along about 1980, where the entire public sector–any aspect of government that is designed to help the common American–is being methodically crushed to death.