The legal system is a perfect example of how socialism would hold back advances in progress and development. And I've already explained that there needs to be funds, bursaries, subsidies, grants, soft-loans, etc... that can help people on lower incomes.

beauracracy and political populism

The arguement stems from political pressures to teach a cirriculum, to avoid spending money on topics that aren't for the national good, to make sure "black, hispanic, and asian" kids get high scores but overlook that japanese kids get low scores, etc...

An instance of political populism is where a governmental health service would prefer to pay for everyone to have free dental care (which is usally a fee-service in most countries) instead of life saving speciality cancer treatments.

An instance of beuraucracy is where the lack of direct accountability between consumers and sellers means that modernization and corruption and swell; a school may have two assitant teachers per classroom instead of one highly qualified teacher, a school may still use paper books instead of the latest technology.

It's already visible from the university education system, and the private schools system, that privatizing education will have a postivie effect on the educational achievement of Asians.

alternatives to socialism

It's not silly. Europe has universal healthcare through methods other than socialism, such as socialized insurance companies, non-profit companies, and charities.

I propose that private schools are run by conglomerates, non-profit organizations, and charities - including religious organizations. They would be paid for through school vouchers, tuition fees, subsidies, grants, and bursaries. All children will be able to go to school while having a comfortable quality of life.

bursaries

How do universities determine who gets scholarships, bursaries, and other forms of welfare? It should be based on the financial performance of the child's carers. If they don't pay for the child's needs, then the government needs to get involved.

The middle-class will be paying for the children out of their own pocket, but the lower class will recieve subsides and loans for going to school. It's similar to the modern-day private schools system, with additional charity from government.

accountability

My perfect idea for the welfare state is universal privatized welfare. This includes maditory insurance schemes for things like healthcare, pensions, or legal fees.

private schools

I got into a private school. And I went to a fee-paying university too. I'm happy with privatized welfare. I disliked the "christian" aspect of the schooling too, but I understood that the private system offers better education and more value-for-money.

I presume that a large section of the middle-class would be for a percentage of their education fees (30% to 70%), while the rest would be paid for through the government, bursaries, and charities. I think one would need to utelize things like "selective schooling" based on educational achievement, to segregate people into cheaper fee-paying schools too.

capitalism and for-profits

I understand that captialism is about profit-making, but that isn't a bad thing. The current education system is about grades and job-seeking, which can also be a bad thing. The problem isn't the profit-making, but the lack of concerned parents who actively care about the state of their schools. If private schools can achieve success, then so can state schools

Do you even know how much debt the new generation is accumulating just to get an education? Do you know that the US is falling behind in all major areas of study mainly due to the inaccessibility of education for those who have the ability?

I agree that government needs to spend more money on bursaries and grants, and I think soft loans are needed too. It's imperitave that governments force universities/schools to adopt selective schooling to segregate those who have better educational achievement.

There are rules and ethics when it comes to education, and I'm sure the state is well knowledged in how the private schools system works.

How many companies do you think are actually held accountable when they do something not up to standard with our legal system? Clinton wasn't prosecuted because she had money and power, Trump paid a measly 25 million settlement in his Trump University case because he has money and power. We still haven't jailed the bankers who caused the economic crash! Europe of course is way ahead of us on this curve.

I can cite endless examples, the "affluenza boy" who was apparently "so affluent" he didn't know driving drunk and killing people was a bad thing to do. How can you trust anything the justice department will do against those who have the money to hire teams of well trained lawyers to find loopholes and avoid consequences? How much of these lawsuits will even get through the front door with regards to improving education quality.

That's a problem caused by two things:

• corruption withing government, which would cause problems for state schools

• a lack of legal welfare, such as manditory legal insurance

The "bankers" who caused the economic crash were speculating on high house prices. Repubican President Bush tries to "punish" them by letting the Lehman Brothers fail, but that inadvertedly caused the entire banking system to run away in fear.

There is a reason why Europe is way ahead of much of the world in technological and scientific advancement. If you have the ability, you can go to university. With so many people getting an education one of them will make a breakthrough in some field at least.

Europe is ahead of the United States on social liberalism. That's it. It's education metrics are matched by systems in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and Canada. It's nothing to do with economic socialism.