From Prodos' site, topics covered include the following (and a number of strange diversions on catholicism and history!):
- Why do most people assume the solution to education should be government based?
- Where in the world are most people rejecting government involvement in education?
- Margaret Thatcher’s reaction when Marshall Fritz asked her what she thought about getting rid of government schooling.
- Public education as a monopoly.
- The problem with “common schooling" and the lowest common denominator, blandness, conformity, relativism, and “going on feelings”.
- The aim of government education as breeding conformity, obedience, dependence.
- Government schooling as a state jobs program for teachers.
- Who makes the decisions in a government system as to which of the many possible approaches to education the state system will use?
- What about parents who are irresponsible? Who won’t educate their kids?
- In a totally private, free school market will schools likely be larger or smaller?
- The three stages of radical change.
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