Ignorance is the worst form of slavery and ignorant is what America's fast becoming. At the very least, government education was supposed to teach our children how to read, yet the literacy rate today is lower than what it was 150 years ago before government schooling began. The aim of good education is to teach people how to think, not what to think. No wonder so many Americans fail to recognize the chains of their own bondage. If a slave doesn't know he's a slave, mistakenly thinking he's a freeman, then government certainly isn't going to tell him any different.
Libertarians believe that government has no proper role to play in education.
We believe that the best solution to government education is a complete separation of education and state, just as we have a complete separation of church and state, and for much the same reasons, freedom of education is just as equally important as freedom of religion. Libertarians believe the basic principles of right and wrong apply to politicians and bureaucrats the same as they apply to all individuals. Certainly, the government shouldn't be able to take from one individual who is working and give it to another individual who is not working. Today, the average worker in American, pays fifty-percent or more of his earnings to the government in some form of taxation. Might does not make right, nor can the largest majority in the world justify a wrong act or make it right by simply voting on it.