So, finally, there is public admission of what we all knew from daily experience: that the government is unable to meet the cost of good education for everyone. What a deceitful charade this has been. I remember a meeting with the late great Oliver Clarke in The Gleaner's boardroom in 2016 when a government minister boastfully insisted that his government would fulfil Michael Manley's promise of “free education” by the abolition of auxiliary fees.