OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT SCHOOLS

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“Public schools are...”

“Public schools are government-established, politician- and 
bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian 
socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the 
purest examples of socialism existing in America...

“If freedom is to survive in America, it will be necessary to eliminate the 
psychologically crippling and mentally debilitating authoritarian socialist 
public-school system that inevitably inflicts upon all of its students a 
long and thorough indoctrination in authoritarianism and convinces them 
that government force is a valid and necessary means to achieve virtually 
any desired ends.

“This must be replaced with a system involving freedom and democracy; that 
is, a system of individual choice known as free enterprise in which 
students would actually be genuine customers, patronizing genuine education 
businesses.”

-- Thomas L. Johnson, professor emeritus of biological sciences at the 
University of Mary Washington. From an op-ed in the September 26, 2004, 
issue of The Free Lance-Star.