About this book
In this radical, scholarly monograph, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the feature that dooms our educational system: at every level, from financing to attendance, it relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. Tracing the history of compulsory schooling, he shows the State has long used it — backed by egalitarian ideology — as a means of citizen control, and argues for a purely voluntary, privately financed, market-based alternative. Notably, it promoted individual and home schooling long before the practice became widespread.
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