Also, his answer is glib and insubstantial. The basic problem we have with education in this country is that we want to pretend that all children can be educated to a high-school graduate level, which is only true if you debase the curriculum to the point that everyone can achieve it. This is vastly different from how Thomas Jefferson thought the education of children should be handled; he at one point designed a rather elitist proposed system in which only the best students each year would continue to the next year’s class. By his scheme, only a very small percentage of children would ever have got anywhere near what we now consider a high-school education. I think he went a bit too far in some ways, but the basic idea that schools should be devoted to and optimized for the educable, rather than compromised for the benefit of the ineducable, seems quite sensible to me.

Huckabee, proud candidate of the booboisie.

Weapons of mass instruction…

Great Idea!  There is plenty of Depleted Uranium lying around the Middle East, maybe he can bring some of it home and give it to the states so that they can use it to craft musical instruments and art supplies.

Summing up the Huckster’s Stance on Education:  “The States should handle education and the only time the feds should get involved is if I have a really neat idea”.

Actually, that seems to sum up the entire attitude of modern “conservatives”:

“The states should handle <insert unconstitutional issue> unless WE come up with a really cool idea on the Federal Level”.

<<“The States should handle education and the only time the feds should get involved is if I have a really neat idea”>>

I think you’ve just earned yourself a cushy job as an advisor to Rev Huckabee!

“Weapons of mass instruction”.  Bahahahaharrr.  Talk about a Freudian slip.  Compulsory public education is a remarkably effective tool for indoctrination and the destruction of independent, rational thought- truly, no greater “weapon” against freedom has ever been conceived.  Take it from me- I’m eighteen and fresh out of high school.

I have been a public school teacher for 10 years and at the end of every year we all get together and sing praises and give thankful toasts for the Federal Department of Education for all the great direction that it has given us in our classrooms.  I don’t know how we could have taught without it.  I mean if it wasn’t for that department we would have destructive things such as having more local resources to use in our classrooms, having more freedom to do what we thought was best in our classroom, and the worst of them all would be that we would have to be accountable to parents rather than unelected bureaucrats.  Oh, the horror.