The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible - Bastiat Institute

... public schooling
often ends up to be
little more than
majoritarian
domination of
minority viewpoints
Robert B. Everhart,
Professor of
Education, University
of California, Santa
Barbara
The law pretends
that education can
only occur in an
approved classroom,
completely ignoring
the kind of incentives
that are expected to
motivate adults.
From Ken
Schoolland’s The
State, Obedience
Training, and Young
Rebels: In Defence of
Youth Rights.
Chapter 20 • Bored of Digestion
of others because an educated society benefi ts all
– even when government schools fail to educate
students.
The government could use taxes to pay for
private school tuition, but doesn’t. Why? Could
it be that the primary reason for government
intrusion is not to educate, but rather to control
the minds of its citizens?
Is this why they teach admiration for rulers
such as Napoleon – omitting that he sacrifi ced the
lives of hundreds of thousands to meet his own
ambitions? Is this why they do not teach children
about rational thinkers such as Frederic Bastiat,
the Frenchman who championed freedom?
Background
Ken taught at Hakodate University in Japan
where he wrote Shogun’s Ghost: The Dark
Side of Japanese Education. His article Should
We Shogunize the Schools? May be viewed at
http://www.jonathangullible.com/Shogunize.
Another astonishing article of Ken’s derived
from a longer and annotated article that is
now available on-line at http://www.jonathan
gullible.com/REBELS.
References
Rose and Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose.
Mary Ruwart’s Healing Our World.
Education in a Free Society by Benjamin A
Rogge and Pierre F. Goodrich.
What the perfect world could look like:
http:///www.theadvocates.org/gentlehand.html.
The Alliance for the Separation of School
and State movement organised by Marshall
Fritz: http://www.sepschool.org.
Education and child policies may be viewed at:
http://www.cato.org/research/#domestic-issues.
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