[mharig]

Although I agree with your arguments, you forgot one or two things:

Public schooling in Germany is near pure chalk and talk. This kills the natural motivational learning-by- playing habit in most of the children very effectively. The approaches of Waldorf, Montessori, etc are far better. Although not perfect.

Public schooling transports the state propaganda. Although in nowadays Germany, it is more propaganda by ignorance than by direct indoctrination. Or did you learn about direct democracy, non-fiat money, self-administration in school?

[eqvinox]

> direct democracy

Yes, by looking at the Swiss system

> non-fiat money

Yes, we learned about ancient age bartering as well as inherent-value currency (i.e. gold coins)

> self-administration

Not sure what you're referring to here…

[mharig]

Swiss' have not a real direct democracy. They, too, feed fuckin' politicians and their political idiocy. And the swiss bureaucracy is as bloated as in Germany, too.

And of course as a german Untertan you do not know what self-administration is.