"His brain has not only been washed, as they say. It has been dry cleaned."
--Dr Yen Lo (The Manchurian Candidate)
Rothbard draws an excellent analogy about the problem of compulsory education. Instead of using newspapers, I will employ 'public media network' to better reflect today's choices.
Suppose that the federal government proposed using taxpayer money to create a nationwide public media network and compelled all children (or all people for that matter) to view/read/listen to them. The government would also outlaw all private outlets that did not comply with standards set by a government commission on what children ought to be exposed to.
As Rothbard observes, the American people would likely regard such a proposal with horror. And yet, this is precisely the sort of regime that the government has established in the sphere of educational instruction.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The National Public Education Channel
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
~Horace Mann
Horace Mann helped Massachusetts become the first state to implement compulsory education in 1852. By 1918, all states had adopted it.
~National Conference of State Legislatures
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