Reply #23: Nothing...

[Spider Jerusalem]

Abolition of the public education system is not a very good idea; reform, yes, but even so it would still serve the same ends. 59% of Americans have never been to college; it's those, with a high-school education or less, who are trained to be cogs in the machine, if you will. Of those who DO go to college, a VERY small number are going to be the future Turings and Einsteins and Hawkings; most will go into corporate management, or something similar. But we still need to provide the soil from which those people who will change our world and the way we look at it will grow, nonetheless.