Free Life Commentary No 128, 30th September 2004 I particularly liked this bit:
“A generation ago, E.G. West showed how growing numbers of working class people in the 19th century paid for and supervised the education of their children. The beginning of state education in 1870 should be seen as ruling class coup against an independent sector that looked set to marginalise its legitimation ideology. And that reaction was promoted on the basis of fraudulent statistics.”
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3 responses to “Free Life Commentary No 128, 30th September 2004”
Really good article, Jax, thanks for that one. I liked this bit:
“The only answer is to get the state entirely out of education. The education budget should not be expanded, or its administration reformed. It should simply be abolished. That £49 billion – now, I believe, £63 billion – should be handed back to the people in tax cuts; and these should be directed at the poorest taxpayers. The schools should be sold off or given away, and the bureaucrats be made redundant. The people should then be left to arrange by themselves for the education of their children. ”
Bring it on!
Having read this article on Brian Micklethwaits blog I was going to post a comment along the lines of this: “I believe there should be some form of “free” state funded education, but not state controlled because however much money is returned to the public in the form of tax cuts, there will always be a proportion of people who will not take the opportunity to educate their children or encourage them to educate themselves” (I said I was going to say it but I just did!)
However I just read the first comment on Brians link above and I am now going to say “The State can fuck off! Free Enterprise Works!!”
I’ve commented over there.