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Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Neodoxy — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:34:38 GMT

http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/

This guy is a wonderful source, I don't remember which episodes he specifically has but I do recall episode 6 being especially enlightening. You also might want to get in touch with him for specific sources I'm sure he'd be more than happy to help you

brett@schoolsucksproject.com

Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Michael J Green — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:58:30 GMT

James Tooley appears to be an authority on private provision of education. I've only read his contribution to the Independent Institute's The Voluntary City, which documents British and American education in the 19th century and efforts in India today, but here's a CATO paper regarding education in India, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. I'm also interested to see what Coase found on his own.

Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Altaris2011 — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:42:19 GMT

Coase,

On a strange coincidence, I now have to do the exact same investigation you posted in here. I suppose that you were successful getting this information from some other sources. So... could you hook me up???

Any examples showing that government assistance is unnecessary for affordable education??

I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Coase — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:55:54 GMT

Thanks for the responses, but let me clarify: I'm simply looking for specific examples of privately provided education in the US and Britain pre-20th century (and for private reasons as well--while government didn't run the schools in the US before the Civil War state governments did mandate their existence as well as certain requirements to be met in some cases). Not an argument as to why private education is superior to public education, but simply proof that government assistance is unnecessary for education to reach the poor masses.

Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Gero — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:27:26 GMT

John Stossel covered this in his column and on his show.

Re: Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

SirThinkALot — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:20:01 GMT

ALL education in the US was private before about 1850. And public education wasnt the norm until after the Civil War.

Also, public schools were originally established in states with established religions, in order to educate people about the religion.

A good source explaining this, although he focuses on the religion question, not the education question, is Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesnt. by Stephen Prothero

Historical Examples of Private Education in the United States and Britain

Coase — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:14:09 GMT

I'm writing a research paper attempting to prove that education can be brought to the poor masses through private means. It shouldn't be too difficult, but I need lots of strong examples. For various reasons I'm specifically looking for examples in America and Britain before the 20th century. I figured mises.org was the place to go for people who would be more than willing and able to help. I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer.