The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Educational Conscription

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Link: Educational Conscription: Pity the poor teachers.

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If like me, you feel that someone old enough to marry, have a family or serve his country in the armed forces is old enough to make his own choices about education or training, please sign this petition. Anticipating the usual cynical comments, please understand that I know it’s probably a waste of time. I agree that it will probably make no difference to a government so undemocratic that its "online consultation" on the subject offers no negative options to most of the questions!

But if I didn’t believe it was better to light a candle than curse the darkness, why would I write this blog? And if you didn’t believe it, why would you be reading it?

One response to “Educational Conscription”

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    Ian

    Signed.!
    It would appear that this legislation would criminalise those young people looking forward to leaving school and taking up a “hands on ” vocation.
    Graduates and university educated young men and women can only enhance and contribute to our society.
    But we also need craftsmen, artisans, and people to work in the trades, to keep the infrastructure of life viable.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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