I was just writing in another venue about nonpublic education, which is the governmentese term for … well, education other than public schools. The term caught my eye in an article about China’s new property-rights law, and I guess the rest is just gestalt. You could just about substitute the word “education” for “property” without changing anything else.
The property law gives equal protection to state and private property and is ‘conducive to encouraging, supporting and guiding the development of the economic sector of non-public ownership,’ Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Congress’ Standing Committee, told delegates last week.
‘Clear-cut definition of property and fair competition are the basic requirements for developing the socialist market economy,’ Wang added.
‘Keeping public ownership dominant and having the economic sectors of diverse forms of ownership develop side by side constitute the basic socialist economic system of the state in the primary stage of socialism,‘ he said.
Keeping in mind that Marx said it was all about economics, and we in North Carolina seem to think it’s all about education.
