Regarding the separation of school and state, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe makes a very cogent argument in his editorial, A call for separation of school and state.
A free market in education would allow those who seek knowledge the ability to find it; just as a free market would allow those who seek something else the ability to find that. And, most importantly, I would not have to pay for the nonsense that some call public school education; just as they would not have to pay for the basic education I seek for my children. What a wonderful way to live the ideals of the Declaration and Constitution.
Now we all live in a system where the most persistent pressure group owns the system and controls the direction without fear of competition. Currently, the system has been captured by the professional educatists.
Public education worked so well in Prussia that Marx considered it as one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto; right alongside a confiscatory progressive income tax. We have adopted both of those planks as our own. Isn't it about time to reread history in order to see how we started as the land of the free and brave, and ended up the land the public education and progressive income tax. We have certainly come a long way from "DON'T TREAD ON ME!"
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