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Bill: The Right of Intelligence
Details
Submitted by[?]: CSA Pax et Socialism
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: November 2472
Description[?]:
| ADVISING students seeking careers or simply more knowledge, to open the door to higher education. FREEING the mind and never restricting education to only those who can afford it. SPREADING equal opportunity and ending denial. CO-PROMOTING individualism among tomorrow's leaders of our nation. DEFENDING education as right, not an opportunity. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Current: Education is a matter of local governments.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:56:54, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the The Right of Intelligence |
| Message | Too soft. Education is too precious to be left in private hands. Letting a public school system coexist with a private one, only leads to inequality. We vote against, still we're happy the bill will pass. It's a step in the right direction. |
| Date | 21:41:03, October 18, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the The Right of Intelligence |
| Message | I see what you're saying, and I once argued that. However, not allowing individuals their own individual form of learning or thinking is suppression of the mind - what if I don't want to learn everything the state teaches? Well for that matter, a private diploma would be worth less than an official public diploma. Equality plays out in this format. |
| Date | 09:57:55, October 19, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the The Right of Intelligence |
| Message | "what if I don't want to learn everything the state teaches?" Then you don't. The state only states what knowledge should be aquired, it does not (it even can't) force anyone to learn it. So, it's not about your freedom to learn or not, but about what knowledge you should acquire. And you can't be the judge of what you want or need to learn, before having learned it, can you? It's like kids and food: they tend to say "I don't like that" even before having tasted it. And if you let them they will most probably only eat candy. Which is exactly what self-regulating private schools would offer: 'candy knowledge", because they have to abide by the law of offer and demand. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 315 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 82 |
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