Childhood Ends at Puberty, by Charley Reese, 15 Apr 2006 Related Topics: Compulsory Education, Benjamin Franklin, Learning "... we do young people a grave injustice by branding them as children until they are 18. ... Basic education should be finished by the age of 12 or 13. After that, young people should be apprenticed, enrolled in commercial or vocational schools, freed to work or, if they have the IQ for college, enrolled in the university system."
On Moral Education [PDF], by Herbert Spencer, Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical, 1861 Condensed from "Moral Education" chapter, reprinted in Spring 1966 issue of Left and Right "... if education be a preparation for the business of life, then every child should also, from the beginning, have daily experience of this fact. ... Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others."
Stop the Cannon Fodder, by Charley Reese, 27 Jan 2007 Related Topics: Iraq, War "I'm glad that I discouraged all my children from serving in the military, even though I had served. It is important, I believe, to separate the natural and noble feeling of love of country from the present reality. ... Do not hand your precious one-of-a-kind children over to cynical men who will squander their lives without blinking an eye."
What Do You Call Someone Who Wants to Get Their Hands on Your 5-Year-Old?, by Vin Suprynowicz, 3 Feb 2007 Related Topic: Compulsory Education "No net gain for a price of millions: One would think that makes universal tax-funded kindergarten a non-starter. But parents will overwhelmingly enthuse over the prospect of getting someone else to fund their all-day child care a full year earlier, and the program will be adopted with much glee and celebration."
Teaching Basic Economics to Fifth Graders, by Arthur E. Foulkes, Mises.org Daily Article, 21 Jun 2006 Related Topics: Economics, Free Trade, Money, Prices "My goal with these fifth graders was ... to inoculate them against future attempts to teach them bad economics. By showing them that trade, money, savings, competition, and prices all have distinctly human origins and purposes, I hoped to help them make better sense out of the 'economics' they will some day be exposed to."
The Drug War's Immorality and Abject Failure, by Anthony Gregory, Freedom Daily, Jul 2006 Related Topics: War on Drugs, Rights "What kind of conflicted message do children get in a world where millions of drug users live productive, relatively normal lives and manage to avoid punishment, and yet the ones who get caught are punished more severely than burglars and rapists? How can a child learn about property rights and the founding principles of America and yet be taught that his home or vehicle can be searched one day, as long as some police officer thinks he might have drugs?"
Books
Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes, Oct 1995
