are you left,right or centre?

[Tiberius]

When you think of government not as 'that big company that runs everything' and more along the lines of 'those legislators that write laws' it seems almost perverse that they might pay our teachers and decide what our children learn.

It seems more perverse to me that without public education common poor children might not learn how to read or write since those parents might not be able to afford private schooling.

Hence where private charity comes into it.