Education

Phasing out the Department of Education is a step in the right direction towards an increasingly market-oriented system of education.

There‘s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities becoming R1 research institutions, the competition for dwindling federal dollars will change the higher education landscape.

"Universities are nurseries of socialism, but there's always a remnant of young people who resist the statist propaganda."

"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.