Government & Policy: Public Education

Op-Eds

California Children Still Considered State Property

Your Child Is Not State Property

"Racial Balance" Programs: The New Racism

The Conservatives' War on Birth Control

"Intelligent Design" Is about Religion versus Reason

Public Education Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good

Income Inequality Is Good

UCLA Penalizes Student Group's Exercise of Free Speech

Public Education Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Tax Credits for Education

To Improve Students Education, Set Their Parents Free

"Racial Balance" Programs Are Racist

Children Should Not Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Pledge of Allegiance Should Make no Reference to God

Public Education Letters Archive

 

Articles

States Shouldn't Have to Fund Higher Education, an essay by Onkar Ghate in BusinessWeek's Debate Room

 

Video & Audio

Your Child Is not State Property

An op-ed by Thomas A. Bowden

The Morality of Capitalism
By Yaron Brook, recorded April 3, 2008, at Chapman University (video lecture)

The Separation of School and State: The Case for Abolishing America's Government Schools
By C. Bradley Thompson (video lecture)

The Separation of School and State: The Case for Abolishing America's Government Schools

 

Ayn Rand on Government & Policy

“Man’s Rights” (an article)

“Collectivized ‘Rights’” (an article)

“The Nature of Government” (an article)

Conservatism: An Obituary (audio lecture)

"Let Us Alone!" (audio interview)

The Nature of Rights (audio interview)

Objective Law (audio interview)

Politics of a Free Society (audio interview)

The Structure of Government (audio interview)

Censorship: Local and Express (audio lecture)

The Moratorium on Brains (audio lecture)

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (audio lecture)

The Wreckage of the Consensus (audio lecture)

 

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"Just as modern educators proclaim the importance of developing a child's individuality, yet train him to conform to the pack, so they denounce memorization, yet their method of teaching ignores the requirements of conceptual development and confines learning predominantly to a process of memorization. To grasp what this does to a child's mind, project what it would do to a child's body if, at the age of seven, he were not permitted to walk, but were permitted to crawl and stumble like an infant."

—Ayn Rand, "The Comprachicos," Return of the Primitive, p. 69

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