On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:49:04 -0700, Rand Simberg
wrote:

Hop David wrote:

That's an awfully intrusive government to call "libertarian".


Nothing intrusive about it.


The government-mandated Moral Philosophy class, complete with
government-mandated content, that every single student has to take
doesn't strike you as intrusive?



No more so than today's public schools.


Mike Shilling was arguing the Starship Trooper government wasn't that
libertarian. Comparing the Starship Trooper schools to today's public
schools doesn't counter that argument.

Unless you believe today's public schools are run by a libertarian
government.

Well, I certainly don't believe that. ;-)

But I in fact think that the schools in ST were in fact less dogmatic
than the public schools in America. If only there were a single course
that were required here... Instead, the students are immersed in
collectivist, politically correct nonsense all day, and aren't learning
the basics.

I see. You think that the schools in Starship Troopers keep their
societies ideology strictly in one class and it doesn't influence how
they teach history or literature at all?