Education is not a proper function of government

"The problems of our public schools are not caused by poor teachers, indifferent parents, dysfunctional homes, or too much television.

"The problem is that schools became the government schools that many feared when Massachusetts passed the first compulsory government school laws in 1852. . . .

"Our public schools are socialist enterprises. Every person who works in the schools is a government employee. The Supreme Court even has defined school board members as "government officials." Government teachers, as wonderful as many of them are, are as dangerous to the cause of freedom as would be government reporters or preachers. ..

"The choice is clear. Education is not a proper function of government. . ."

Robert S. Marlowe, The Washington Times, September 11, 1999, as quoted in Summit Journal, November 1999. http://www.summit.org