Good Day my Fellow Athenians! I come to speak to you this day and let our voices be heard in reference to State Funded schooling. This is foolish! We are already paying sums of money to those who sit on the juries! Education should be for those who are able to pay for it themselves and who further have the time to devote to such studies. A portion of those within my faction send their children to be educated for a fee, this is as it should be. Socrates can not be trusted! Look at how he led Critias and Alcibiades astray and ultimately led them to their destruction!! We can understand and appreciate the new learning of mathematics, science, and so forth, however this WILL detract our sons from things that really matter.
Some say that education shouldn’t be limited to those who can afford it. To that I say why not? Why should we have to pay to educate your children? The economy is already struggling is it not? Why place more strain on our mother Athens? If we begin to give away for free an education today, then what comes tomorrow? A free home? Free land? If so why do any of us work? Anything worth having is worth working for, if education is given freely, it wouldn’t be as important as something you had to save and pay for yourself. If there is some monetary merit for the family your more appreciative and work harder to do well. It should not be handed out!
Still others will say that education should be free and equal. Nothing is free. It may be free to the less fortunate in our assembly, but money doesn’t just drop from the sky! Someone has to foot the bill do they not. Tax the wealthy land owners I suppose would be the response to this problem, but again I say to you, it’s much better to pay for this on your own! Education, like many other things in life aren’t as valuable to an individual as when you have had to work and sacrifice to make it happen!
As far as Social Welfare...times are hard, believe me I am feeling it too! During war time we paid huge war taxes! Our estates were plundered, we had to build and equip GIGANTIC expenses for out triremes! A LARGE number of our slaves wondered off during the time of war. No further taxes for property owners! We have less now than we ever did! We cannot pay the taxes required to rebuild a navy at this time or any other expenditure so great!
Some will say that we should pay those to attend assembly so that they have money, and will attend assembly, those who have been injured, who are handicapped, or just unable to find work. To this I say why? If a man doesn’t work he shouldn’t eat. You should attend assembly because it’s part of your civic duty not because there are deplumes in it for you to show up! People make time to do the things that are important to them whether there is financial gain or not. And lest I remind you of how things once were, if there was a handicap, they were left to starve off and die, the strong will survive. Paying all to attend, even a small sum of money will bankrupt those who are paying eventually. Then what happens? All of Athens will starve when the wealthy have run out of what little money we have left after the war!
I say cut off what is bad, and dying and let the strong thrive, and that edcucation should be for those who have EARNED it!
Some say that education shouldn’t be limited to those who can afford it. To that I say why not? Why should we have to pay to educate your children? The economy is already struggling is it not? Why place more strain on our mother Athens? If we begin to give away for free an education today, then what comes tomorrow? A free home? Free land? If so why do any of us work? Anything worth having is worth working for, if education is given freely, it wouldn’t be as important as something you had to save and pay for yourself. If there is some monetary merit for the family your more appreciative and work harder to do well. It should not be handed out!
Still others will say that education should be free and equal. Nothing is free. It may be free to the less fortunate in our assembly, but money doesn’t just drop from the sky! Someone has to foot the bill do they not. Tax the wealthy land owners I suppose would be the response to this problem, but again I say to you, it’s much better to pay for this on your own! Education, like many other things in life aren’t as valuable to an individual as when you have had to work and sacrifice to make it happen!
As far as Social Welfare...times are hard, believe me I am feeling it too! During war time we paid huge war taxes! Our estates were plundered, we had to build and equip GIGANTIC expenses for out triremes! A LARGE number of our slaves wondered off during the time of war. No further taxes for property owners! We have less now than we ever did! We cannot pay the taxes required to rebuild a navy at this time or any other expenditure so great!
Some will say that we should pay those to attend assembly so that they have money, and will attend assembly, those who have been injured, who are handicapped, or just unable to find work. To this I say why? If a man doesn’t work he shouldn’t eat. You should attend assembly because it’s part of your civic duty not because there are deplumes in it for you to show up! People make time to do the things that are important to them whether there is financial gain or not. And lest I remind you of how things once were, if there was a handicap, they were left to starve off and die, the strong will survive. Paying all to attend, even a small sum of money will bankrupt those who are paying eventually. Then what happens? All of Athens will starve when the wealthy have run out of what little money we have left after the war!
I say cut off what is bad, and dying and let the strong thrive, and that edcucation should be for those who have EARNED it!
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