Never argue with an idiot.
The drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

I'm not in favor of cutting the education budget. Conservatives like you are.

It keeps the population uneducated and voting for them.

and yet our education costs increase every year and our rankings in all the tables of achievement go down. Please explain Miss Kowasaki?

I'm not in favor of cutting the education budget. Conservatives like you are.
Ayame Tan,
So, seeing that Education in Australia has gone from bad to worse despite record funding, do you then support waste also ?
I'm a Conservative simply because watching the likes of you with poor mentality is a no brainer to shy away from the regressive Progressives.
Or, are you trying to tell us the billions thrown at education here are well spent ?
I don't think so ! At least I can't see any evidence of it.

Bad to worse? That would be the fault of the teachers, correct? Because they're wasting so much time on religion. Giving millions to pastors as "counselors" only makes things worse.

The simple act of being a conservative means you only care about your own rights.

The word "education" is derived from EDUCE = "bring out or develop (something latent or potential)". The assumption is that the student already has good qualities within, that are only waiting be uncovered.

But what goes under "education" today has nothing to do with it - modern schools are palaces of indoctrination, the entrails of the prevailing society where children are digested, including (but not limited to) in order to make them cannon-fodder in countries that are at war and cogwheels in the industrial/economic model of countries that are relatively in peace.

Not a cent should be provided towards this sinister cause!

In the least, if states wish to claim and prove their (non-existent) innocence and true good-will towards the children under their jurisdiction, then they should give each child (through his/her representatives, the parents) equal education vouchers, which parents can then use to pay for their own choice of educational services/materials for their beloved children that are truly educational, not indoctrinational.