Count this as my quote of the week.

“Hardly anyone today thinks the quality of education has increased considerably over the last several decades. Yet from 1961-2005, per-pupil education spending in the United States increased by 247 percent, adjusted for inflation. In fact, per-pupil spending hikes on public education from 1961-2005 were so massive they dwarf the rates of price increases in housing, automobiles and even gasoline, and have outpaced increases in personal income as well.”

- Patrick Gibbons, Nevada Policy Research Institute, 7/24/08

More money and a much bigger government bureaucracy has produced… well… nothing new.

Fabulous.

H/T: NPRI