> How many kids educated in /liberal/ countries surpass our kids in math and
> sciences?
>
> So having a left or right agenda has nothing to do with education.

Liberals in other countries aren't quite like the liberals in the US.
While they both believe in big government, the liberals in the US have
much more touchy/feely kind of slant. Not really sure where that came
from, however, as it's a more recent phenomenon.

Witness the recent craziness in using purple markers to score tests
instead of red ink, because red is too "frightening", and the belief by
many that it's not important what you get on a test, but that the
attempt was good enough.

http://www.boston.com/news/education...seeing_purple/