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Jacob, from Oxford YS, a school student. Is compulsory education Ignorance. but the rulng HAVE W GOD claśs. don't miss their does). And I learnt far more This method of controll- day) and read Marx fo ing people's thoughts by Beginners than a whole locking them up in institu- month of school. tions supposed to improve It is the duty of all their minds is used all over socialists to oppose the the world to counter the eleven years of rigorous effects of mass literacy. indoctrination which In the USSR, (and prob- every British resident is ably in the West as well) it forced to endure (without involves dissidents being which capitalism could not placed in mental hospitals. survive and fight for 8 school is, and always has the word) and both optional The central message of just, free (in both senses o! been, 'Do as you are told education for both adults (by higher authority) and youth. WE started Pravda-a-gó-go lit took months to get used to the name) because we were ted up with the boring, stereotyped, YS papers like Socialist Youth and Militant Class Fighter is a distinct improvement) and we it gets the YS away from the practice of only having repetitive meetings.

Hope the idea will be of to other branches.

Tony Prowse, of Weymouth LYSI necessary?

FOR years the left, and particularly the revolutionary left have been talking about making schools into better places. However, I have never heard anyone suggest compulsory education should be abolished. There has not even been any talk of a fundamentally different education system. All we have had is a few weak moans about corporal punishment and the worst of the petty rules.

Apparently education under socialism will be exactly the same as it is now — that is, a number of overcrowded jails where kids are herded from the age of five to learn the basic principles of capitalism -dha mant immactant hirina bie mos Important veng subservience to higher authority.

Of course when free universal education was first introduced it was considered a pro- rather than an anti-civil liberties measure, a chance for working class kids to escape from poverty and 4L -opportunties. whether right or wrong Your opinions are irrede vnt:. This message is clear. ly intended to be carried into later life, and s pathetic reforms will ake it.

Finally, the main arge ment for the retention d compulsory education -that no-one would lea without it, and we mould end up with an Iliterase population on our bands. This argument assame two things, both of stick are so ridiculous as to be hardly worth! of cocsiceration:

a)Nobody ever anything outside school.

b)Nobody ever learning and no-ost TOCC learn anothing it rex *6 a terr farced to.

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