Depends on whether you see schools actually "inculcating the United States’ fundamental values of liberty, equality, fairness and the common good" or working to create a bunch of worker bees who can't think critically and blindly worship every institution (public and private) regardless of how hard they're getting fleeced.
Ironically, private schools are more likely to pitch anti-union and anti-worker ideas to kids. These places are all conservative think tanks and anyone who doesn't see that is an idiot. The liberation of the common man will never include a private school.
>Ironically, private schools are more likely to pitch anti-union and anti-worker ideas to kids. These places are all conservative think tanks and anyone who doesn't see that is an idiot. The liberation of the common man will never include a private school.
I was thinking more on the lines of the sort of how they never really teach critical thinking, gloss over any and every historical mistake and perhaps how to spot and avoid them and generally do their hardest to create what shortsighted small scope government silos see as model citizens at the expense of not creating people capable of sort of long term thinking and ability to connect disparate concepts that result in a more performant society.
This seems like a strange take to me. What's the alternative? Which schools inculcate critical thinking and distrust of institutions? (Surely not private religious schools with mandatory uniforms and other strict rules.) Or do you believe that ignorant children with no schooling will naturally develop critical thinking skills?
