{"id":386956,"date":"2018-11-28T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-academic-stared-down-the-bad-guys\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:46:09","slug":"this-academic-stared-down-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-academic-stared-down-the-bad-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"This Academic Stared Down the Bad Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shop all books by Tom Woods<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

From The\u00a0Tom Woods Letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Without the state, we wouldn\u2019t have X.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the template used against us all the time.<\/p>\n

Education is a common X. Why, without state involvement our people would be ignorant and the poor would barely be educated at all!<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s so very different from our current situation, right?)<\/p>\n

I understand why people might think this way.
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But they\u2019re dead wrong.<\/p>\n

James Tooley has spent years chronicling the astonishing, previously unknown phenomenon of low-cost private schools in the developing world. They educate more students than the state schools at lower cost and with better results.<\/p>\n

If parents in the developing world can afford to send their children to non-state schools, does this alone not blast to smithereens the lazy without-the-state-we\u2019d-have-no-education argument?<\/p>\n

Of course it does.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tooley has been helping establish more such schools in various poor countries.<\/p>\n

And now he\u2019s bringing the no-frills, low-cost private school model to England, his home country.<\/p>\n

Great, right? He\u2019ll save money and get lots of people a good education.
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You\u2019ll never guess:<\/p>\n

Some people hate this idea.<\/p>\n

Some people hate it so much they pulled out all the stops to prevent him from doing it.<\/p>\n

Now why would they do such a thing? Out of concern for the students?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ha.<\/p>\n

Can you guess who might want to stop this?<\/p>\n

And incidentally, note the absurdity: the free market can\u2019t produce low-cost education, but when it does we\u2019ll do everything we can to shut it down!<\/p>\n

These people are deranged.<\/p>\n

Either way, Tooley\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Tom Woods From The\u00a0Tom Woods Letter: Without the state, we wouldn\u2019t have X. That\u2019s the template used against us all the time. Education is a common X. Why, without state involvement our people would be ignorant and the poor would barely be educated at all! (That\u2019s so very different from our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}