There are arguments that can be easily split into quality versus quantity. If I need to feed 6 billion people, I need quantity. If I need to feed the New York times food critic, I need quality. Then there are arguments where things get a bit fuzzy. If I can live 10 more years with a constant stabbing pain in my left eye, I get quantity. If I can live 3 more years pain free I get quality... but wait... what if I meet the love of my life in that 4th year during my horrible eye pain? I'd have been dead, painless and loveless down the other road.
Before I poke your other eye out, let me get to the good stuff. Small class sizes equals better education, right? Right. Quality increases as quantity decreases. The less students you have, the easier it is to invest more in them. Thus, 1 child per couple makes sense. Cry about the tax base all you want but I'd rather have a dinner party of intellectuals than a lecture hall of morons.
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There are arguments that can be easily split into quality versus quantity. If I need to feed 6 billion people, I need quantity. If I need to feed the New York times food critic, I need quality. Then there are arguments where things get a bit fuzzy. If I can live 10 more years with a constant stabbing pain in my left eye, I get quantity. If I can live 3 more years pain free I get quality... but wait... what if I meet the love of my life in that 4th year during my horrible eye pain? I'd have been dead, painless and loveless down the other road.
Before I poke your other eye out, let me get to the good stuff. Small class sizes equals better education, right? Right. Quality increases as quantity decreases. The less students you have, the easier it is to invest more in them. Thus, 1 child per couple makes sense. Cry about the tax base all you want but I'd rather have a dinner party of intellectuals than a lecture hall of morons.
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