After discussing morality and the meanings of right and wrong, perhaps the easiest early lesson one can explore in a political philosophy class is that engaging in aggression is wrong. The next lesson is that all forms of the polis utilize aggression to exist, and that this incessant activity pushes innocent people together, whether they want to be part of the system, or they don’t.
One of the best examples of this tragic compulsion is the public school, the tax-funded school, which sees children of different abilities and with wide-ranging interests put into a system that cannot cater to them, which sees parents become dissatisfied, and which sees virtually all taxpayers – even those without kids – fighting amongst themselves to control the pedagogy of the system.