Critics of State Education : A Reader

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cato Institute, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Place of Publication:

Libertarianism.org Press

Summary:

Since at least the days of ancient Sparta, governments have sought to control the educational process. By influencing the education of their citizens, governments hope to produce loyal subjects. Yet everywhere, at all times, men and women of independent mind and will have resisted and opposed state education. Critics of State Education: A Reader surveys this important movement, bringing together influential historical texts of thinkers great and small. In readings from Plato's Athens to Priestley's Britain, George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore explore the value of liberating education from the influence and control of government.

Contents:

From an essay on the first principles of government / Joseph Priestley

"Of national education" / William Godwin

From the sphere and duties of government / Wilhelm von Humboldt

"Shall the state educate the people?" / Thomas Hodgskin

From "on the proper sphere of government" / Herbert Spencer

"The principle of state education" / Edward Baines, Jr

"On the progress and efficiency of voluntary education in england" / Edward Baines, Jr

"A letter to the most noble the marquis of lansdowne, president of the council on the government plan of education" / Edward Baines, Jr

"On the non-interference of the government with popular education" / Edward Miall

"The connection of religion with popular education" / Algernon Wells

"On the parties responsible for the education of the people" / Richard Winter Hamilton

Reasons against government interference in education / Anonymous

"The persecution of the child by the state" / A.E. Hake and O.E. Wesslau

"State education: a help or hindrance?" / Auberon Herbert

"Some socialist and anarchist views of education" / Benjamin R. Tucker.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781944424435

1944424431