Public Education - Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

[ERlady]

Primarily through charity...right 

[endauthority]

poor kids would get great mceducations, or work

[janityy]

@Wanda4DecentValues umm so now ure gonna force feed them ure religion which is a cult lol

United States is not a Theocracy

Constitution is a Secular document

K-12 is a lie because it is meant to keep the herd the masses stupid thru answering to a Bell , forced memorization and homework which is against 13th amendment

Homeschool and read 5 books a week path of Genius

[Mike10four]

Education!? The concept of public or private is window dressing. It is the skills of the instructor that trumps bureaucracy or institutional infatuation. That is, the art of developing a scholarly relationship between instructor and student that advances the state of one's enlightenment. For example, let me be the instructor, and you the student, by visiting my channel as an example of an effective tutelage concerning the true meaning of Individual Rights; hence, home or youtube education!?

[drfoxcourt]

Privatized education exists around the world. The result is hopeless poverty for the poor and a lock on the wealthy controlling the nation (ex Brazil, India, Africa...) Where is public education working? Where is there economic mobility? Japan, China, Scandinavia, Germany, France...

Why isn't it working in USA? Because we value the unreal (religion) above the real (science).

[BONDMATT007]

@drfoxcourt

Norway's public university system is ranked the same as universities in Uganda. From 25 years ago when my stepfather went to school there, the high school system has become a JOKE (my private school, international baccalaureate math standard level, counts for 1 1/2 years of math in university there). The 'economic' mobility you claim exists doesn't. What does exist is an overactive social net to catch those who fail, regardless of the reasons why.

[astviskavon]

way to cite your sources. "a friend of a friend told me about this study in india". genius.

[dduppie]

@astviskavon that's it? so if you knew the source, you would agree?

[ostralopithicus]

Great! I would argue though that while public school ought to be abolished, the argument ought to be against educational monopoly. The more diversity the better.

[BlackWolf4830]

Get rid of public schools? OH NO! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Public school is a sick joke. Say what you want about private schools, but there's one thing that private schools can't do: arrest your children for writing on a desk with magic marker

[Wanda4DecentValues]

Our public scools are designed for one perpose in mind only: to breed gays. Since gays cannot reproduce, liberal teechers must turn non-gays into gays, and they do it in the scools wile our childrens are still young. Being the smart Christian conservutive that I am, I catched on to this deevius plan and pulled my 3 young boys from the communist public scools. From now on, they will be home-scooled only.

[MatW1lson]

I disagree. I went through all 12 grades and kindergarten through the public schools and there was nothing but great animosity and hate towards homosexuals.

No one, in my belief, can make one gay.

Also, u seem to be operating from premise that sex is only for reproduction. The institute that presented this video comes from a philosophy that holds sex as a "celebration of life".

Homosexuality, itself, cannot be deemed as immoral as long as consenting individuals are involved like all romances.

[MatW1lson]

Also: I have found very few liberal politicians to be gay themselves.

Still, I don't understand there agenda with anti-guns, higher taxes, public schools and health, among many others!

[sorenkierkegaard2008]

Assuming that was a thinly veiled attempt at satire, I'll address your insinuated argument. The "Safe Schools Czar", Kevin Jennings, several years ago, spoke to a captive audience of 14 year olds about "fisting", and how to do it properly. As well, he recommended a book, which depicts group sex amongst 1st graders (1ST GRADERS!) as normal and acceptable.

P.S. If not satire, I strongly urge you to take some remedial education classes before home-schooling, or to hire a tutor.

[whoo689]

I cringe and get very upset whenever I hear about these jackasses making zoning regulations telling people where they can and can't go to public school based on where they live. Fuck you, bureaucrats. Don't tell me I can't send my child (if I had one anyway) to your school just b/c I'm "too far." Leave transportation up to me. I'll get the little bugger on time. It's none of your goddamn business where I live. And so, many parents have to lie about address just to use good schools.

[whoo689]

Or these bureaucrats from the school districts actually going to parents' doors to see if they leave there. How nosy and intrusive! 

And of course, school boards are a joke. Like they really care about parents' and childrens wants and needs. They just like the power and feeling of superiority and acting like they know best. The people who know best are parents, teachers and students. Period.

[whoo689]

Why are America's top colleges the envy of the world? Because they compete! They are decentralized. There are no silly professors' unions getting in the way of progress. Each university is pretty autonomous compared to the public school districts. They have an incentive to do better than competitors and get kids to apply. Now, why the hell can't this possibly work for K-12?

The problem is that our model is outdated, and few politicians wanna think outside the box on this issue.

[whoo689]

School choice is a great idea, but it should be one of many approaches to making our K-12 system more efficient, responsive and competitive. I mean, we have kids all over the country who go to colleges 100s, if not thousands of miles away, from their homes. Big colleges like Mizzou even have students from OUTSIDE the country. Now, I ask you, why can't we offer this same model for K-12? I see no reason why not. K-12 should not be so limited. Location should not doom you to bad education.

[ColBrokov]

This is hard to take seriously. Is he seriously suggesting that schools in an Indian slum perform better than American Public schools?

Countries that do not provide free universal public schools are THIRD WORLD countries (India). Countries that do provide free universal education are FIRST WORLD countries. This is not an accident. Disagree? Then take your kids to the Indian slum and educate them there.

If education were private how many people would not even bother to educate their kids?

[KeyserX]

Maybe it wouldn't be so hard to take seriously if you understood basic english sentences.

Brook says that studies have found that the private schools in the slums were better than the public ones the inhabitants of the slums had access to.

This illustrates that poor people do not necessarily suffer from a privatization of the education system.

Also you might want to check when public schools in their current form were actually introduced, since you seem to think they caused our economic success.

[ColBrokov]

Thank you for the kind words. You seem to have mistaken my point. I was attempting to point out that public education is universal in the first world and is not in the third world. If Brook's assumption were true then the third world would have developed better preforming private institutions than the first worlds public schools. They have not.

All the best educated societies have public education. Don't you agree that there is a correlation between education and economic success?

[whoo689]

Competition and decentralization are much more efficient than public mandates at achieving results. You'd know this if you knew economics. WE CAN achieve universal, quality schooling for our kids. But we don't need a huge federal government bureaucracy, for one thing. At the very least, abolish the DOE and give it back to the states. Let them figure out the best ways for their people. NCLB only made a bad situation worse. My plan works well in college, and it can work in K-12.

[bubblesnuggles]

go compare subject results, e.g. mathematics, of US students to their counterparts in Inda. Go and check and come back and tell us what you find.

[74u73hjd]

Do schools kill creativity? If creativity was a person schools would be it's concentration camp! I think that young people are going through a creativity holocaust perpetrated by teachers especially ones who hate their jobs. Everyone who agrees this is a disgusting inconvenient truth give me a thumbs up. BTW I'm only twenty years old and I understand this.

[74u73hjd]

this is what ADD means in public school you don't want to listen to boring, uninteresting crap in school then that's what your totalitarian dictatorial teachers label you as!!

[bakukenshin]

I think we are at a critical juncture, one where the power vacuum in the republican party is wide open for the libertarian / objectivist strands of the political spectrum to make a principled stand for the future. But the objectivist school of thought needs a principled political representative to offer a viable alternative to the present seesawing between christian fascism and liberal collectivism.

[sardonical1]

I agree.  We do need to eliminate this monopolistic government-run school system. It would be a lot better, and it would work. The other added benefit: less voters who are essentially "drones" for demagogue politicians like Obama.

[p0rq]

Love it! Keep up the good work Dr Brook!

[ShoelessLlama]

As a public educator: the accountability is a joke...the way money is spent is a joke...and, more importantly: the students know it is a joke...and most of them are happy to play along because they are never shown a better option.

[EyeQue782]

having taught one year in public schools before moving to Japan, I've been waiting for another teacher to notice that for a long time... even here in Japan...

[teewillis1981]

Often I hear proponents of public education railing against the current system as being a failure, not because of the very nature of the system, but because of lack of funding. This assertion is ludicrous because no matter how much money is thrown at public schools, the failure continues. And that begs the question: Why? Well because they aren't failing! They are doing exactly what they are designed to do, which is create statist adults, spouting the rhetoric and corruption of the good ole gov.

[beingjohngalt1]

So true.

[MrSmithKnows]

Your right on.

The gov crats are getting exactly what they are paying for.

yes sir drones who excel

and the individual thinkers fail out or just pass through on their wits which keeps them from getting into the best schools and jobs to seek to keep them powerless.

And they do a damn good job.

[shovelcharge]

we need more articles/videos on the privatization of education. I would add that most schools don't even actually educate kids. They are a joke.

[beingjohngalt1]

Check out "Mr Cropper" here on the tubes. He is an Objectivist who decided to start his own private school out of his home.