Anti Public Education - SHOULD EDUCATION BE COMPULSORY AND TAX-SUPPORTED, AS IT IS TODAY?

The answer to this question becomes evident if one makes the question more concrete and specific, as followes: Should citizens have their wealth expropriated to support an educational system which they may or may not sanction, and pay for the education of children who are not not their own? Should the state control the education system? Should the government exert wider and wider control over every ascept of education? To any one who understands and is consistantly committed to the principle of individual rights, the answr is clearly: NO!!!!There are no Moral grounds whatever for the claim that education is the prerogative of the state-or for the claim that it is proper to expropriate the wealth of some men for the unearned benefit of others.The doctrine that education should be controlled by the State is consistant with the Nazi or communist theory of government.Further, the facts remain that: (a) most parents are effectively compelled to send their children to State schools, since they are taxed to support these schools and cannot offord to pay the additional fees required to send their children to private schools; (b) The "Standards" of education, controlling all schools, are prescribed by the state.When the state assumes financial contol of education, it is logically appropriate that the state should progressively assume control of the content of education - since the State has the responsiblity of judging whether or not its funds are being used "Satisfactorily", But when a government enters the sphere of ideas, when it persumes to prescribe in issues concerning intellectual content, that is the death of a free society.The solution is to "bring the fild of education into the market place".There is an urgent economic need for education. When education institutions have to compete with one another the qualoty of the training they offer when they have to compete for the value that will be attached to the degree they issue- educationla standards will necessarily rise. When they have to compete for the services of the best teachers, the teachers who will attract the greates number of students, then the caliber of teaching- and of teachers' salaries - will necessartily rise. Today, the most talented teachers often abandon their profession and enter private industry like BPO's and few IT's, where they know their their efforts will be better rewarded.Education should be liberated from the control or intervention of the government, and turned over to a "Profit - making private enterprise", not because education is unimportant , but because education is so "crucucialy important".Please do not get offended by the example I am quoting, because its a fact:If, for many years, the government had undertaken to provide all the citizens with shoes, and if someone were subsequently to propose that this field shousl be turned over to private enterprise, I would doubtless be told : "What!!! Do you want everyone except the rich to walk around barefoot?"but the shoe industry is doing its job with immeasurably greater competence than public education is doing its job. Just because its been tax supported for such a long time, most people find it difficult to look for an alternative.