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Public education used to be considered important because we believed that it was advantageous to a society that large numbers of people in it be able to read, think, and reason.

The fact that we are seemingly not willing to pay for this any longer (I say we even though I live in Canada) seems to suggest that we don’t see the link between an educated populace and a decent society in which to live. (Or at least, that it’s okay if a lot of us don’t have access to it.) It is a spectacular failure of imagination.

We moronically complain about the cost of public education and related high taxes, but we never calculate the cost of not funding public education, even though those costs are staring us in the face every time we walk out the door.

I wish I knew how to turn this state of affairs into a photographic essay. It must be one of the most high profile failures of our culture. We used to have good public education and we are letting it slip away. How do you photograph stupidity?

—Robert Roaldi via TOP