Hostage to Education
January 17, 2012
IN her 1792 book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of modern feminism, wrote about the need for a nationalized system of education.
The good effects resulting from attention to private education will ever be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand to the plow, will always in some degree be disappointed, til education becomes a grand national concern.
This documentary, “The Dark Intentions of Public Schooling,” made by the libertarian organization Freedom Advocates, briefly examines the history of this grand national concern in America. The sentiments of the reformer Horace Mann were similar to those of the revolutionary Wollstonecraft:
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
