Issac Morehouse
"If you like the idea of a population that is competent in math, science, reading, writing, physics, philosophy, biology, history, economics and every other field of knowledge, you should oppose state support for education. Without resorting to complicated debates about curricula, teachers unions and budgets, the same economic analysis Smith and Hume used to understand the relationship between church and state can be used to understand the relationship between school and state. State support for education results in a less educated populace."
At the American Enterprise Institute's Values and Capitalism blog, Isaac Morehouse makes a case for separation of school and state by looking closely at the historic arguments made for separation of church and state and applying them to the concept of separating school and state. It is a compelling comparison. Just as a government supported religion loses its fervent followers, a population that has its education provided and paid for by the government loses its enthusiasm for learning.
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---Katie
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