Religious vs Secular: Supreme Court confusion
Religious vs Secular: Supreme Court confusionIn previous blog posts I have covered the obvious fact...
Forced Government Schooling
A system designed to create “a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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Lessons not learned in the COVID wars Part 2
Part 1 is here.Lesson 3: The oppression and the lies that were accepted by the public showed a...
Lessons not learned in the COVID wars part 1
Lesson 1: “Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual...
School choice wars: Texas tries again
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The Costs of Conflict
There is a new report published by UCLA titled The Costs of Conflict, The Fiscal Impact of...
Update on the eBook
There is a comprehensive review of the book here.Although it is still on Amazon and elsewhere, you...
Stronghold of the Enemy
Several years ago, I had reached a point in my blogging about coercive schooling where I was...
Old time religion in modern clothes
As I have examined the phenomenon of government controlled schooling, it has been a continuing...
The Constitution of the United States: Void where prohibited by law
I suspect that most people in America don’t realize that the constitution of the former USSR...
Freedom of conscience: a missing element in the education debate
In his Age of Reason pamphlet (1807), Thomas Paine declared that “Persecution is not an original...
Local control of schools: the demise of an enduring myth
We are often told that a solution to the various problems of public schools is to “bring...
The resistance
This post is the third in a series that discusses the origins of the modern government schooling...
The Prussian model
This is the second post in a series examining the origins of our government-controlled school...
In the beginning: mostly voluntary and private
Most people have no idea how the modern school system evolved. Some may think that compulsory...
The STEM graduate shortage: science fiction as public policy
The classic problem with central planning of economies is that the planners have insufficient...
Free to Learn
The arguments for freedom of education are many. The focus of my concern is generally on the human...
Freedom in education: a better way
A major thesis of this blog is that government should have little authority over education. The...
A skeptic's review of the purposes of public education
If you were wondering why we must have a public education system, you can thank these folks for...
Destructive mind control as a public service
After struggling to understand why most people are very supportive of government control of...
A crime against the human mind and spirit
Anyone who investigates alternatives to the factory school system of the current day will...