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9 years ago
Friday, January 13, 2006
Some more on liberty
....take a look at the work of John Taylor Gatto, a former New York state teacher of the year. He deals predominantly with educational issues....but then he doesn't, but rather traces the decline in education observed in the past century and a half in terms of the desire to control other people. In other words, large, government-run schools are an infringement on liberty of no small order.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Not only are gov't schools an infringement on our liberty, it is blantantly unconstitutional.
I'd argue that those two things are related; education is not mentioned as a legitimate power of Congress/federal government because they necessarily infringe on liberty.
2 comments:
Not only are gov't schools an infringement on our liberty, it is blantantly unconstitutional.
I'd argue that those two things are related; education is not mentioned as a legitimate power of Congress/federal government because they necessarily infringe on liberty.
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