Education

"The state is the ultimate villain in economic stories, disrupting voluntary trade and imposing unnecessary controls."

"The percentage of Americans who have confidence in higher ed has dropped from 65% a decade ago to the low 30s today."

"The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that otherwise may have found other pathways."

Tom DiLorenzo, Jonathan Newman, Timothy Terrell, and Jason Jewell speak on their experience in academia, the future of education, and promising alt

Higher education has managed to con huge numbers of young people to take out six-figure loans in order to have the “college experience.” However, the so-called benefits to college are turning out to be a chimera, all funded by increasing indebtedness.

Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions. 

Despite efforts by elites to promote state-sponsored education, people are revolting against the statist model. From private schools to home schooling and other alternatives, people have not forgotten that liberty and learning fit well together.

Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have that problem, and there is a good reason why.

American higher education, which is supposed to be about learning truth, has become a bastion of untruth. As higher education loses accountability, it simultaneously is corrupting other institutions, especially journalism and even the business world.

Created as a sop to the teachers‘ unions, the Department has presided over huge declines in student academic performances and has played a vital role in politicizing formal learning at all levels.