Comments on: Milton Friedman: Education (Part One)

By: Nintendomanwill

Nintendomanwill — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:42 +0000

Is his point that the extreme disparity between the rich and poor in the USA due to misguided welfare policy? If it is, he argues it well, but perhaps even Friedman fans like myself should recognise that short term profit motive could lead to deliberate subjugation of the poor by the rich, mercantilism, anti-compeititon, everything agaisnt free and fair competition and efficiency that renders everyone wealthier: ie the government needs to intervene to prevent that and they have NOT.

By: yammyspeed13

yammyspeed13 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:42 +0000

I went to public school and leaned my 3 R’s….
rudeness, racism and spelling.

By: cpblackangel88

cpblackangel88 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

Get the government out of education. Let local and state government have public schools yet let a voucher system make it so there is fair competition.

By: SuaveSavant

SuaveSavant — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

9:11 pimp daddy lol

By: SuaveSavant

SuaveSavant — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

Boston, I think, though this is in the Bronx. Might be just plain New York, but I say Boston.

By: Andybaby

Andybaby — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

8:30 – wow- what is that accent?

By: jonshultz

jonshultz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

subsidies drive prices up

By: lockdown260

lockdown260 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

see this and take their money to better schools. Our k-12 lacks this competition. That in addition to it being next to impossible to fire bad teachers here and you have a huge problem.

By: lockdown260

lockdown260 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

@Nintendomanwill
Yes depending on you parents net income. But as you realized Harvard has a lot of resources and many alumni with very deep pockets. Federal taxes don’t go to unis here. Only state taxes. If you go to school on your home state you get lower tuition. The thing about american public unis that separate it from public high schools is that there is (even in state subsidized sys) a great deal of competition. Poor performing unis can’t fund good programs and students …

By: Nintendomanwill

Nintendomanwill — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:38:41 +0000

Financial aid? Doesn’t that stop it being a marketised system? I suppose competition is still open, but I wonder how deep pockets are over there to allow universities to have high costs, so they can be free to develop as they like, while always paying for students whose family earns under 60K. It soudns like you allow a market but pay to reduce inequalities of opportunity it might produce. Surely that costs athe public a helluva lot which sort of beats the point of allowing a private uni system.