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The Principle and Practice of Compulsion in Education
E.G. West Centre
Links to numerous articles about compulsion.
Suggested reading and watching on education, schooling, and liberty, from diverse sources.

Featured Articles specifically address or provide particular insight into the legitimacy, history, or consequences of institutional systems of schooling, especially those that are compulsory, state-controlled, state-regulated, and/or tax-funded.

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Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System
Andrew Young and Walter Block | Journal of Value-Based Management | 12:3:195-207 | October 1999
Also available through Ludwig von Mises Institute

Genuine Multiculturalism
Karl Bunday | Learn in Freedom! | 1999

The Central Fallacy of Public Schooling
Daniel Hager | Foundation for Economic Education | 1999

Totally Wasted
Sallie Tisdale | Salon | 1998
"High school devalues teenagers' idealism, saps their creativity and is just plain boring. So why don't students want it to change?"

The Conservative Commitment to Educational Socialism
Jacob G. Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation | 1998

Integration Where It Counts: A Study of Racial Integration in Public and Private School Lunchrooms
Jay P. Greene & Nicole Mellow | University of Texas at Austin | 1998

The Seduction of Homeschooling Families
Chris Cardiff | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | 1998

Before the Public Schools
Gary Benoit | The New American | 1997

Government Schooling: The Bureaucratization of the Mind
Thomas E. Lehman | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | 1997

What If Supermarkets Were Run Like Schools?
Mark Harrison | SchoolChoices.org | 1997

The Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Edwin G. West | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | 1996

» See also:
E.G.  West Scholars' Page
E.G. West Centre

It Takes a Bureaucracy
Gwen J. Broude | Reason Magazine | 1996

Who Got It Right? What Proponents and Opponents of the Creation of the Department of Education Promised & Predicted
John E. Berthoud | Thomas B. Fordham Foundation | 1996

Schooling: Liberation or Mind Control?
Richard Heinberg | New Dawn Magazine | 1995

Education in a Free Nation: Children Can Learn Without State-Forced Schooling
Liz Hanson | Formulations | 1995

Non-Government Schools: Education for Democratic Citizenship
Joel Wysong, Cornell University
Philosophy of Education Yearbook, 1994

The Weak Case for Public Schooling
David Friedman | 1993

Who Controls the Children?
Carl Watner | The Voluntaryist | 1992

The Manufacture of Subjection: A Critique of Compulsory State Education PDF
Stefan Blankertz | Libertarian Alliance | 1992

Only Freedom of Education Can Solve America's Bureaucratic Crisis of Education
Jack D. Douglas | Cato Institute | 1991

Why Americans Won't Choose Freedom
Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation | 1991

When Education Becomes Abuse: A Different Look at the Mental Health of Children
Raymond S. Moore & Dorothy Moore | Journal of School Health | 1986

The Dilemmas of Public Education
Clarence B. Carson | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | 1983

John Holt: Common Objections to Homeschooling
The Natural Child Project
Excerpt from Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education (1981)

John Holt: Teach Your Own Children...At Home
Mother Earth News | 1980
Interview with John Holt

Education: Free and Compulsory
Murray N. Rothbard | Ludwig von Mises Institute | September 2006
Originally published in 1976

The Student as Nigger
Jerry Farber (1969)

I, Pencil
Leonard E. Read | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | 1958

State Education: A Help or Hindrance?
Auberon Herbert | Online Library of Liberty | 1850

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