Comments on: Spending cuts: Can they be objective? http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/15/spending-cuts-can-they-be-objective/3271/ For Liberty, One Individual At A Time Fri, 18 May 2012 14:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to “Prove” That Poetry is Valuable » J. Timothy King's Blog http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/15/spending-cuts-can-they-be-objective/3271/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 How to “Prove” That Poetry is Valuable » J. Timothy King's Blog Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:27:24 +0000 http://libertymaven.com/?p=3271#comment-1854 [...] Lasken bemoans a government-school program that teaches kids about exploring sexual fantasies through virtual worlds, in place of teaching them about poetry and [...] [...] Lasken bemoans a government-school program that teaches kids about exploring sexual fantasies through virtual worlds, in place of teaching them about poetry and [...]

]]> By: Mark T http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/15/spending-cuts-can-they-be-objective/3271/comment-page-1/#comment-1842 Mark T Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:05:15 +0000 http://libertymaven.com/?p=3271#comment-1842 The reason objectivity can't be found is because of a collectivist error. Because public schools are trying to serve the interests of "the people", those interests can be defined in many ways by different individuals claiming to speak for that fuzzy collectivist concept "the people". If you were working privately to educate your students, you would have to serve the interests of your customers (presumably the particular parents or guardians of children in your class) according to the fixed resources they provided you. See, for example, <a href="http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/08/29/simple-educational-philosophy-works" rel="nofollow">http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/08/2...</a> The reason objectivity can't be found is because of a collectivist error. Because public schools are trying to serve the interests of "the people", those interests can be defined in many ways by different individuals claiming to speak for that fuzzy collectivist concept "the people".

If you were working privately to educate your students, you would have to serve the interests of your customers (presumably the particular parents or guardians of children in your class) according to the fixed resources they provided you.

See, for example, http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/08/2…

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