All Posts Tagged With: "Department of Education"
Higher Education in America: Individualism or Central Planning?
In education individual decisions are determinative. Each person (for children, with the assistance of parents) is able to choose the best kind and the ideal duration of education. That is why it’s foolish to talk about the “national education level” as too low or too high. There is no “national level.” If any individual should decide that he would benefit from more education, he will act accordingly. There is no more need for government action here than on the “national fitness level” or “national artistic level.”
21May2009 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedWhy on Earth Do We Have a Student Loan Crisis?
Amid all our other crises, you may have missed the student loan crisis. It isn’t nearly so life-threatening as global warming, nor as financially alarming as the subprime-mortgage collapse, but it does have a lot of politicians clamoring that the country needs them to prevent serious harm. That’s because—for reasons I’ll get to soon—many of [...]
1Nov2008 | George C. Leef | 6 comments | ContinuedMost Outrageous Government Waste
Mr. Schatz is president of Citizens Against Government Waste. Since my job is to be a watchdog on government waste, I’m often asked about the most outrageous cases. That’s a tough call because government bureaucrats never take care of your money as carefully as you would take care of it yourself. More important, bureaucrats spend [...]
1Jun1996 | Thomas A. Schatz | 41 comments | Continued-
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