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Bill: Education Restructuring Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: War is Peace Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2451
Description[?]:
| A permanent revolution is needed in the way we teach our citzens! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Current: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:03:06, September 06, 2007 CET | From |  Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | We'd take things futher but certainly common sense proposals. |
| Date | 17:31:41, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | Those who wish education may already pay for it. Why force citizens to pay for benefits they do not want, or for the benefits of others in addition to their own? |
| Date | 21:13:55, September 06, 2007 CET | From | War is Peace Party | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | Because education benefits the whole of society. You pay for the benefits of others because in the long run it benefits you to. |
| Date | 21:55:25, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | Publically funded higher education benefits the whole of society. A laughable statement. Publicly funded education is typically of lower quality than private, not to mention the fact that the most productive members of society are often those who don't even bother to complete their higher education, instead choosing to enter the real world and become productive at an earlier date. Much of higher education consists of a self-proclaimed intellegentsia propogating itself through the funds of others, never achieving a life beyond the parasitic. Especially in the area of "Liberal Arts" degrees, the education received does not qualify one to be in any way productive, but only the reenter the education system on some level and continue the cycle of treating what should be no more than intellectual hobbies as valid professions. Those who wish higher education may earn the money to pay for it. Those whose highest concern is being productive and useful members of society can, with the exception of a very very few professions that actually require such education, skip it altogether. In the long run, these policies would primarily benefit those who simply waste the money of the more productive to "educate" them on things that are of little or no practical value. |
| Date | 03:27:44, September 07, 2007 CET | From | War is Peace Party | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | A democracy rests on the ability of the people to make informed decisions. In such a society what could be more vital than the education of the public? |
| Date | 04:01:17, September 07, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Education Restructuring Bill |
| Message | If democracy truly rested on the ability of the people to make informed decisions, there would be no democracies left in the world. The majority of voters do not choose to consume enough relevant information to make logical decisions, they merely develop an emotional rapport with a given party or candidate based on soundbite length snippets of rhetoric, then blindly throw support behind said party. Historically speaking, if voters were truly informed, most of those who have managed to attain political office would never have held a higher position than Official Dog Catcher, and that only from voters who prefer that dogs not get caught. But I digress. As to the question presented, individuals who possess intellectual curiousity will educate themselves on those issues which rouse that curiousity. Individuals do not need the government to create, support, suggest, influence, mandate, or in any other way touch the direction or intensity of their intellectual inquiry and learning. Government, becoming involved in these things, tends to make it harder to obtain and process quality information, not easier. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 182 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 176 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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