The Hidden Origins of Compulsory, Tax-Supported Government Schooling in America – What the Professional Managerial Elites Do Not Want You to Know

June 8, 2024

Why the Schools Went Public.
In the early 1800s, private schools were thriving. Then a small group of wealthy intellectuals decided education must be socialized. And in 40 years they had largely accomplished their goal. Here for the first time is the story of their campaign.
by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
https://reason.com/1979/03/01/why-the-schools-went-public/

Samuel L. Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary? (An Early History of What Happened)
http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Books/Is%20Public%20Education%20Necessary.pdf

Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free and Compulsory
https://www.mises.at/static/literatur/Buch/rothbard-education-free-and-compusory.pdf

John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher’s Intimate Investigation into the Problem of Modern Schools
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_758/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation.pdf

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Charles A. Burris [send him mail] retired teacher who taught history in the Murray N. Rothbard Room at Memorial High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.