The Power of Their Ideas.
Demand is held constant by enforcing compulsory school attendance to the age of sixteen.
It is a monolithic system and it is in crisis. James Tooley has some answers in his thought-provoking book Education Without The State. Dr. Tooley is currently Director of the Education and Training Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The I.E.A. is the direct descendant of the Mont Pelerin society founded by Hayek in 1947 to combat socialism and Hayek was the founding father of the economic liberalism of the New Right, the driving force behind Thatcherism. With such a pedigree behind him, it is difficult not to label Tooley's book one of the last gasps of Thatcherism.