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 an ever declining level of mediocrity?
In this radical and scholarly monograph, out of print for two decades and restored according to the author's original, 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 introduction, if education reform is ever to bring about fundamental change, it will have to begin with a complete rethinking of public schooling that Rothbard offers here.
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圖書標籤: 教育 MurrayRothbard libertarianism 羅斯巴德 經濟 奧地利學派 英文版 經濟學
從分散的傢庭和私立教育到大規模的公立教育是有曆史背景的,但是公立教育在什麼階段,多大程度上是閤適的則是需要不斷地反思。
評分看完第一張,邏輯清晰,但我並不認同作者的一些觀點,如果政府對教育什麼都不做,那麼傢庭教育差的學生將會在未來失去競爭力,並且這將會傳到下一代
評分寫作上還是可以學習一些的,文筆畢竟不差
評分從分散的傢庭和私立教育到大規模的公立教育是有曆史背景的,但是公立教育在什麼階段,多大程度上是閤適的則是需要不斷地反思。
評分寫作上還是可以學習一些的,文筆畢竟不差
Education 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載