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Real Choice, Real Freedom

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An incisive analysis of the underlying problems in the American educational system. The author offers a re-examination of key 'first principles' of education, including freedom of the mind, the natural rights of parents, and the limited role of government. He draws conclusions which make one uncomfortable, but which logically must follow. Chief among these conclusions are: 1) the system of public (government compelled) education is fundamentally illegitimate and should be dismantled; and 2) the federal Department of Education should not merely be restructured, but abolished. Don't read it if you want to feel warm and fuzzy about the prospects for improving the status quo.

I would recommend this book to anyone in the United States. This book is a terrific primer on how to be a United States citizen. It clearly explains, albeit in legal terms, that there are some things that fall outside the jurisdiction (read authority to do something not the power or brute force to do it) of human civil government. That is a distinction that has been lost on most Americans and certainly on anyone involved in the American education system from Pre-K to the Post-graduate level. Terrific read. Very educational. Buy it for yourself. Buy it for your friends!