"Making the perfect the enemy of the good."

[Ken Burch]

91. A good primary and secondary education is of value.

But if that's where it gets cut off for most people-and if we're in a situation where even the costs of post-secondary trade school is kept prohibitive, there's a limit to what it gives people a chance to do.

My "bias" is towards everyone being able to make as much use of the minds and their powers of creativity as is possible, and towards education never being treated as a privilege or a luxury-and for people to be encouraged to keep furthering their education throughout their lives, because I believe that when people do so it is purely to the good of us all.

I also have a bias towards the idea that we should be a society in which no one is forced to discard their ideals to survive.

How are any of those "biases" a bad thing?

I recognize that some people do fine with a high school education, that some have no choice but to end their education after high school and wish that everyone be free to make whatever choices they make at that stage of their lives.

The tragedy I see is that, in a lot of cases, if people get a high school education, have the potential to do far more with their gifts if only they can reach the post-secondary or post-graduate level, and are unable to afford anything beyond that, the possibilities in their lives are diminished or sometimes lost.