Education Free and Compulsory eBook Murray N Rothbard Kevin Ryan
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What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have so many generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into mediocrity?
In this radical and scholarly monograph, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent.
Certain consequences follow. The curriculum is politicized to reflect the ideological priorities of the regime in power. Standards are continually dumbed down to accommodate the least common denominator. The brightest children are not permitted to achieve their potential, the special needs of individual children are neglected, and the mid-level learners become little more than cogs in a machine. The teachers themselves are hamstrung by a political apparatus that watches their every move.
Rothbard explores the history of compulsory schooling to show that none of this is accident. The state has long used compulsory schooling, backed by egalitarian ideology, as a means of citizen control. In contrast, a market-based system of schools would adhere to a purely voluntary ethic, financed with private funds, and administered entirely by private enterprise.
An interesting feature of this book is its promotion of individual, or home, schooling, long before the current popularity of the practice.
As Kevin Ryan of Boston University points out in the preface, if education reform is ever to bring about fundamental change, it will have to begin with the complete rethinking of public schooling that Rothbard offers here.
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Education Free and Compulsory eBook Murray N Rothbard Kevin Ryan
Very short book, only 55 pages but well worth it. I wasn't as interested in the authors political commentary, he's a libertarian, although education policy is indeed quite political. John Taylor Gatto is another and I think more passionate and detailed critic of the educational system and some of what they write overlaps. What I gained most from this book is the idea of the collective/the state against the uniqueness and full development of the individual. That's an important theme, Rothbard kept hammering on the term equality which put me off a bit, but when he talks of uniformity/standardization versus the needs of the individual, he has my attention. I work in higher education, have obtained a teacher's license and so have spent a lot of my life around the educational establishment and have to agree with Rothbard. Most of the phoney debate about education doesn't even acknowledge the glaringly obvious issue that a great majority of students don't want to be there, aren't going to learn the curriculum and basically are imprisoned for well over a decade. The ways schools operate have very little to do with effective teaching or learning, you can't have a one-size-fits all when it comes to education, don't care how economically efficient it is, doesn't work. I'm starting to see how schools, churches and prisons are strikingly similar in trying to instill obedience and submission as primary objectives, learning is secondary. What is scary is that the educational system no longer seems to educate but rather to process students through the pipeline and it's especially evident here in Texas with the surrender of individual thought and expression to the group or to the state, students are simply meat for the grinder. This is no accident folks, the educational establishment is an enemy to the full and free development of the individual and the educational process has become so incredibly politicized, it has almost nothing to do with learning, all those standardized tests are trying to reduce humans to mechanical beings, to units of measurement, widgets if you will. The last thing a school wants, at least public schools, is for folks who can think and express their own thoughts, that's not good for business. Rothbard really hammers Luther and Calvin in this book, he examines the spirit of Germany and how it was militarized and standardized, this is his most interesting point to me. I think too, a lot of this drive towards STEM and away from arts/sciences/humanities is an attack on free thought and expression too. So, check out this book, anything by John Taylor Gatto, a book called "Killing the Spirit" by Page Smith, "Imposter in the Temple" by Martin Anderson and "Class Dismissed" by John Marsh to gain a more comprehensive understanding of both secondary and higher education. It ain't pretty folks.Product details
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Education Free and Compulsory eBook Murray N Rothbard Kevin Ryan Reviews
Like other reviewers, I expected more of an argument and analysis of compulsory education. What I found was an overview of the history of forced education, focusing on the motives of the orchestrators. In discussing the history, Rothbard points out the lowest common denominator in all compulsory school advocates indoctrination. From Luther to Calvin, to the communists, right up to the modern day, compulsory schools have existed to indoctrinate the young to a particular way of thinking.
It is also apparent from this discussion that if school attendance is made compulsory, it stamps out individuality and parental control. The title points out the contradiction in "free and compulsory education" quite poignantly. This was a popular line of communists and socialists in the nineteenth century. The irony is that when education is forced, there can be no freedom. Rothbard could have made this point more explicit and discussed how control over the minds of the young is the first step for the state to take control of society.
Historical examples are strong, but general principle and philosophy are lacking, and this is quite disappointing for a Rothbard book. He usually integrates a good mix of principle and example to illustrate a clear and consistent point. If you're interested in the history of compulsory education, read this. If you're looking for a discussion of the problems with state education, there are better choices.
Rothbard gives us the Libertarian view on education. You may not agree with Libertarians on other issues but on education he hits the bull's-eye. It takes a man with courage to tell things as plainly as Mr. Rothbard tells them, but I'm sure everybody agrees with him though many will not admit it.
Basically "to force into schools children who have little or no aptitude for instruction at all (prevents the education of a child) ... It so happens that among the variety of human ability there is a large number of subnormal children, children who are not receptive to instruction ... To force these children to be exposed to schooling, as the State does almost everywhere, is a criminal offense to their natures. ... the instruction has almost no effect on these children, many of whose hours of life are simply wasted because of the State's decree. .. to dragoon them into a school for a formative decade of their lives, to force them to attend classes in which they have no interest or ability, is to warp their entire personalities." Don't think these kids should just be left alone, no. They get education alright.
"The passion for leveling an enforced equality proclaims this is good; let every child be forced to learn about 'life' and be forced to associate with the lowest types of humanity. The envy and hatred toward the potentiality of the better and superior child is apparent in this position."
It's true that when Libertarians talk about Freedom they really mean it. Ideas may seem a little over the top, but if you think honestly about them you have to admit that philosophically they are as right as 2+2 are 4.
In this little and very readable book you will find a little history of State compulsion in education in Europe (where all things evil originated -so to say) and finally how it got implemented in America. The simple and clear way he puts things clear and lays responsibilities for the state of education is something truly to be thankful for. You get to know more about education in this little book than reading many politicized/biased propaganda by America's educationists. A plague.
Very short book, only 55 pages but well worth it. I wasn't as interested in the authors political commentary, he's a libertarian, although education policy is indeed quite political. John Taylor Gatto is another and I think more passionate and detailed critic of the educational system and some of what they write overlaps. What I gained most from this book is the idea of the collective/the state against the uniqueness and full development of the individual. That's an important theme, Rothbard kept hammering on the term equality which put me off a bit, but when he talks of uniformity/standardization versus the needs of the individual, he has my attention. I work in higher education, have obtained a teacher's license and so have spent a lot of my life around the educational establishment and have to agree with Rothbard. Most of the phoney debate about education doesn't even acknowledge the glaringly obvious issue that a great majority of students don't want to be there, aren't going to learn the curriculum and basically are imprisoned for well over a decade. The ways schools operate have very little to do with effective teaching or learning, you can't have a one-size-fits all when it comes to education, don't care how economically efficient it is, doesn't work. I'm starting to see how schools, churches and prisons are strikingly similar in trying to instill obedience and submission as primary objectives, learning is secondary. What is scary is that the educational system no longer seems to educate but rather to process students through the pipeline and it's especially evident here in Texas with the surrender of individual thought and expression to the group or to the state, students are simply meat for the grinder. This is no accident folks, the educational establishment is an enemy to the full and free development of the individual and the educational process has become so incredibly politicized, it has almost nothing to do with learning, all those standardized tests are trying to reduce humans to mechanical beings, to units of measurement, widgets if you will. The last thing a school wants, at least public schools, is for folks who can think and express their own thoughts, that's not good for business. Rothbard really hammers Luther and Calvin in this book, he examines the spirit of Germany and how it was militarized and standardized, this is his most interesting point to me. I think too, a lot of this drive towards STEM and away from arts/sciences/humanities is an attack on free thought and expression too. So, check out this book, anything by John Taylor Gatto, a book called "Killing the Spirit" by Page Smith, "Imposter in the Temple" by Martin Anderson and "Class Dismissed" by John Marsh to gain a more comprehensive understanding of both secondary and higher education. It ain't pretty folks.
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