An "education" is not training worker bees for things like moon shots although I'll admit training worker bees for mega-corporations is an "education" for Conservatives.

An "education" teaches people how to think, expands their world beyond themselves, an appreciation of others. There's a reason wealthy kids would take a year after high school to travel the world.

The result of missing out on an education is a blind chauvinism, an inability to understand much of what happens in the world, a reluctance to compromise so that everyone's needs can be considered and met, and the thought that schools should not crank out thinkers but technicians who work for large companies.

Now, more money does not guarantee a better education, but less guarantees a poorer one. And educating kids is about the most important thing government does. It's too bad kids don't have more support for it.