School Privatization

[natedogg]

Believe it or not, America had a 90% literacy rate before there were any public schools. I think that in this day and age, it might be harder to get that kind of success so we probably need some kind of free education for all, but the state-run version we have now is a farce.

To quote Milton Friedman:

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If one were to seek deliberately to devise a system of recruiting and paying teachers calculated to repel the imaginative and daring and self-confident and to attract the dull and mediocre and uninspiring, he could hardly do better than imitate the system of requiring teaching certificates and enforcing standard salary structures that has developed in the largest city and state-wide systems.

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