Já aqui disse o que pensava sobre este disparate criminoso e não me quero repetir. No dia em que o Governo confirma a extensão da escolaridade obrigatória até aos 18 anos, o que hoje me ocorre sublinhar já foi escrito, de um forma magistral e quiçá definitiva, há mais de 80 anos, por uma personalidade ímpar - Albert Jay Nock. Resta-me citá-lo num excerto do seu livro: The Theory of Education in the United States
«Our system is based upon the assumption, popularly regarded as implicit in the doctrine of equality, that everybody is educable. This has been taken without question from the beginning; it is taken without question now. The whole structure of our system, the entire arrangement of its mechanics, testifies to this. Even our truant laws testify to it, for they are constructed with exclusive reference to school-age, not to school-ability. When we attempt to run this assumption back to the philosophical doctrine of equality, we cannot do it; it is not there, nothing like it is there. The philosophical doctrine of equality gives no more ground for the assumption that all men are educable than it does for the assumption that all men are six feet tall. We see at once, then, that it is not the philosophical doctrine of equality, but an utterly untenable popular perversion of it, that we find at the basis of our educational system.»
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