Rick Perry's policy on education and ... umm

10 November 2011 Last updated at 03:40 Help

Texas Governor Rick Perry has stumbled over his lines while speaking at the CNBC Republican presidential debate.

While listing the three US government departments he would abolish if elected president, he forgot the third one - and prompted an awkward laughter on the debate floor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15669242

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[shadowsguise]

Perry's just one clown in the circus that is the GOP presidential hopefuls.

[AziMeX]

China is watching this in worry, America is going down the toilet so fast they may never get their loan back!

[Jermbot15]

@Strange0ne I've since done five minutes of research and might I say, I would absolutely love it if America adopted Ireland's education system. Particularly the socialist parts where the government pays for college.

[Jermbot15]

@Strange0ne That would be called "cherry picking" and, given your position is that if people were able to choose which schools to send their kids to, it's all the more important that we count the bad choices people make.

[Jermbot15]

@Strange0ne You are incorrect in your interpretation of the US Constitution. I know nothing of schools in Ireland and so will not comment on them, my suggestion would be that you follow a similar philosophy. If only because it will make you seem far wiser.

[Strange0ne]

@Jermbot15 ............Also religious fundamentalist schools who are bashing the bible into childrens heads should be removed from your stats as they have an agenda that is not educational AT ALL and will inevitably drag the median grades down!

[Strange0ne]

@Jermbot15 I live in Europe.I'm Irish and our schools private sectors perform far better then the public schools.In America you set up your educational standards quite poorly and it is is a symptom of the centralisation of decision making on education to the federal level.It should be a state issue on constitutional grounds if i am correct.......................­.

[Jermbot15]

@Strange0ne You're arguing a point that you've given no evidence for. Sorry, but the median cost private school, that would be the private school you get if you lined up all the private schools and picked the one in dead center, costs more per student and gets poorer results. To be fair, it's because the majority of private schools in this country are religious alternatives but, you're making a circular argument that the evidence doesn't support.

[Strange0ne]

@Jermbot15 sorry but the private education sector is an example of free market education,it works far superior to a centrally planned government system! Why?Parents take more responsibility for the choice of school they send their child to!When a 3rd party controlls issues people do not take personal responsibility for those issues.Children are sent to the nearest school in most cases(an assumption)not the one that has been selected based on the quality of service provided.My 2 cents!

[Jermbot15]

@BadgeringTheWitness1 Your belief in free-market education is faith because you don't have a theoretical argument to make for it, not because theoretical arguments are inherently faith based. Your ability to make bold fact based claims about the "fail of public education" and "child labor laws" and, days later, claim that you can't prove ANY of this makes you 'creationist like' in your faith.

If you were an honest debater, you'd admit to your limitations, starting with not knowing history.

[BadgeringTheWitness1]

@Jermbot15 The larger point I was making with that statement is that you appealed to my education to say, "see it works." But that is not understanding what I'm arguing. I'm saying it perhaps may have worked BETTER than it did if the education model was such and such. The only way I can state my case is by appealing to theoretical factors. Sorry if that counts as "faith", but empiricism doesn't have the answer to every philosophical problem in the universe, contrary to what YT atheists say.