| Taken from newstalgia.crooksandliars.com, 1949 "The differences between the welfare state and socialism, and between socialism and communism, are not differences of kind but merely of extent and degree. They grow inevitably out of each other as the frog grows out of the tadpole and the tadpole out of the egg." HENRY HAZLITT "What we call "free public schools" are "costly government schools", operated on the totalitarian principle of universal coercion...Some parents want their children given religious instruction in school ; others do not. Some parents approve of a school curriculum which concentrates on grouptogetherness and life-adjustment but graduates ignoramuses, unexposed to academic disciplines; other parents would like their children drilled hard in the use of basic educational tools--reading, writing, arithmetic--and would like them instructed in the history of their state and nation...What can we do? We can abolish government schools and build free schools - free of control by governmental authorities whose motivations are political, not educational...How about children whose parents could not pay tuition? The people of America... voluntarily give billions to support religious, educational, charitable, artistic, and scientific institutions all over the world. It is absurd to say they would not educate children of the poor without the force of law." "Is it consistent with democracy to institute the most meddlesome, all-encompassing and restrictive government ... |
