From today's IBD:
In 1964, in the book "Understanding Media", Marshall McLuhan said famously: "The medium is the message." In 1967 he issued another book, "The Medium is the Massage."

Well, in the case of public schools ( or what Milton Friedman calls government schools ), is it message or massage? It's both. The message is that government monopoly is good. And massage implies politics galore, which accounts for the politicized lessons taught in public schools....

It wasn't always thus. Private school systems date back to at least ancient Greece. And as John Stuart Mill commented in "On Liberty", his 1859 classic, "A general state education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another." Mill called for schools based "on the voluntary principle."

Ludwig Mieses wrote in a similar vein in "Liberalism" (1929): "The school is a political prize of highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution. There is, in fact, only one solution: The state, the laws, must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left to parents and to private associations and institutions."

I used to think that the powers that be would take over
the internet,,and someone said that could never happen,
and that is true,,,,,,,but,,,you dont need to take over
the internet,,,,nope...all you need to do is take over
all the ACCESS to the internet!,,,and I think that this is
what will happen......If the corporate/government beast
can successfully monopolize the way people access the
internet,then they can control what happens on the internet.
The internet is too huge to buy,,but access to the internet can
be easily controlled in the same way the FCC has been bought
and paid off by those who now dominate the "publicly owned" airwaves.

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