We Don't Need No (Public) Education: Sheldon Richman on the Separation of School and State

Who likes the sound of a school bell? Sheldon Richman certainly doesn't.

"Schools, by their structure, are preparing kids for some sort of authoritarian lifestyle," he says.

Richman is critical of the school choice movement, saying that even in charter schools, money is still being provided by the state.

He edits The Freeman and TheFreemanOnline.org, publications from the Foundation for Economic Education. Richman also is the author of Separating School and State and is a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

Topics include: Unschooling; critiquing charter schools; for-profit private schools; and home schooling.

Shot by Zach Weissmueller and Hawk Jensen. Edited by Weissmueller, Jensen and Paul Detrick

Approximately 5:40 minutes.

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[kev3d]

I attended a fairly highly rated series of public schools in the 80s and 90s. In retrospect I am shocked we were never taught; How to balance a checkbook, how to establish and maintain good credit, how to apply for a home or small business loan and so on. We did spend a month on Whales however and we dissected a frog, useful stuff in the real world where we are under constant frog attack and our streets are littered with Baleen.

[Cryptologist101]

"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well--by creating the international child of the future." ~ Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education at Harvard

[hammerrocks2]

FUCK SCHOOL THEIR WASTING TIME FUCK THE MOTHER FUCKER WHO INVENTED THIS SHIT I HOPE U DIE.. OH WAIT U ARE DEAD U FUCKING BITCH PRICK I HOPE THE REST OF YOU ROT IN HELL FOR WASTING THESE KIDS LIFE WHY DONT YOU FUCKING WASTE UR TIME AND FIGNER YOURSELF IN THE ASSHOLE WHILE YOU SUCK UR DOGS DICK U FUCKNIG NIGGER BITCHES

[reptilia5]

Home education is real education,not in the artificial environment of a class room

[lobibaby]

I live in canada and really wanted to homeschool/unschool my children before I even had any. when my oldest daughter was school aged children's aid became involved and told me that parents who homeschool their children are only doing so to hide abuse, and proceeded to court order me to send them to school.

[HamsterFueledRocket]

I love that Pink Floyd T under his blazer! This guy is awesome!

[GeniusHumanity]

FUCKIN A!

[defiythelie]

@kev3d I went to a shitty public school, but was taught all that you have said because we were viewed as having no future other then debt.

[defiythelie]

Ok do away with public schools. But were are the poor kids going to go for an education ? to kids jails ?

[TasteOfGreen]

@1776Matthew Oh, I'm sorry, what was I peddling? Rationality? Logic? Yeah your right, it is stupid to try and promote the idea of a united world. With people like you in it it ain't gonna happen anyway.

What I am trying to say is take your whiny, negative ass opinions elsewhere.

[1776Matthew]

@TasteOfGreen Go convince the Chinese that their borders are imaginary. Convince the Saudis. Convince the Indians.

CONVINCE THE ISRAELIS.

Convince the Tibetans, who you probably bled your heart out for when their nation was being violated by the Chinese.

Then get back to me.

On second though, don't bother getting back to me. What I'm trying to say is peddle your shit elsewhere.

[TasteOfGreen]

@1776Matthew Boarders are imaginary, they are only going to keep existing if you keep seeing them. Nationalism is the modern equivalent of tribalism.

"Nationalism is an infantile disease, it is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein