Should people be able to take government funding for their own private parks, roads or police? It’s a rhetorical question frequently used against policies such as vouchers that enable people to choose private schools rather than have their tax dollars go only to public institutions. Like all those things, public education is a public good.”It is a weak analogy, but much worse, it dangerously downplays what education is: nothing less than the shaping of human minds. Schools do not require great geographic space, education has been provided privately at significant scale, and there are numerous private schools operating today despite users having to pay once for public schools, and a second time for private. And as Nobel laureate Milton Friedman observed, government can ensure people can access education without providing the schools.

Source: Forbes June 05, 2018 19:30 UTC