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Today Only – Save 20% on The Tuttle Twins

We have this book set and read them to our 3-1/2 year-old.  She’s a big fan of the “I, Pencil” adaptation.  After we read the book, we watch the video of the original Leonard Read read essay here:

Then we end up watching YouTube videos about how crayons are made, where milk comes from, how they make tires, watching a printing press in action…you get the idea.

These books are great for sparking the imagination and sharing some valuable lessons with your children that they won’t get in school.

One big lesson that my daughter now knows from the “Road to Serfdom” adaptation, is that even though as individuals, we plan things for ourselves all the time, BUT that doesn’t mean that we are able to plan for others.  I told here that 99% of the population doesn’t understand that important lesson.

Basically, my point is, if you have kids – get these books.  They’re cheap enough to be almost impulse-buy material…and if you read them to your kids a couple of times, you will get well more value than you paid for these colorful, lesson-packed books that provide a perspective from liberty.

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Would There Be No Education Without A Department For One?

By Steven Clyde

With all the fuss over Betsy Devos’s nomination (which might be in turmoil now)[1] to be the Secretary of Education, many are still asking the same exact questions over and over, yet most seem to bind themselves to this single question:

How would education exist without a single entity controlling it all?

Here’s the thing though: This question has been answered lots of times from lots of different angles. When you have public sectors of education, your main incentives are not to teach but to acquire enrollment. Once you then have your general population of students, your incentives are to:

1.) keep the students enrolled, and

2.) appropriate the funds you’ve been given by the state for what you feel is best.

The abuse of the school boards power run rampant in almost any state you look at. Take for example the high school in McKinney, Texas who thought it would be a good idea to appropriate funds (in the form of a $220 million bond) to build a $62.8 million football stadium.[2] Is this what they mean by higher education? Continue reading “Would There Be No Education Without A Department For One?”