...and labor which should have been spent in educating, to be wasted in quarrelling about education. ... It might leave to parents to obtain the education...and content itself with helping to pay the school fees.6 In the United States school choice within a system of publicly funded universal education was...

...keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence'. Mill maintained that the Government should make up its mind to require for every child a good education, and then save itself the trouble of providing it. But the instrument by which he suggested the Government...

...Word (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 55-76. 6. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ch. 5: "If the government would make up its mind to require...obtain the education where and how they pleased." 7. Cf. Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew E. Kahn, Sprawl and Urban Growth; Edward L. Glaeser and Jesse...

...reluctant to do as it ought, and pass a law compelling them to do so. Yet, if the government decided to 'require for every child a good education, it might save itself the trouble of providing one' (p. 117). The state's role would be confined to meeting the educational costs of children whose parents...

...educating, to be wasted in quarreling about education. ... It might leave to parents to obtain the education and how they pleased, and content itself with helping to pay the school fees. 50 Nearly a hundred years later, economist Milton Friedman, a future Nobelprize winner, made much the...

...about education. If the government would make up its mind to demand a good education for every child, it might save itself the trouble of providing one....pay the school fees of the poorer class of children, defraying the entire school expenses of those who have no one else to pay for them. The objections...