I agree and disagree at the same time. Private schools are definitely superior to state schools. The incentives of a state school will always work against any concept of freedom. But if we don't compete, we become subservient. Its the same for kids and cultures - kids that are trained to never compete will be subservient to a job and the state ; a culture that can't compete will never challenge the culture that can compete. Competition isn't memorization - its attitude, its trying again even if you have lost so far. Competition is rebellion.