{"id":53,"date":"2008-11-21T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-11-21T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T12:09:06","slug":"alan-schaeffer-alliance-for-the-separation-of-school-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodos.solidvox.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Alan Schaeffer: Alliance for the Separation of School and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Privatize Education: Alan Schaeffer speaks with PRODOS on the SOLID VOX Network\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/pw-privatizeeducation01.mp3\"><em>Listen, download or podcast this interview (mp3)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Alan Schaeffer, Separation of School and State\" src=\"http:\/\/solidvox.com\/alan_schaeffer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolandstate.org\/Bios\/AS-bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alan Schaeffer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolandstate.org\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alliance for the Separation of School<\/a> and State talks about why the state &#8211; by its nature &#8211; should not and cannot control education. Schools should be owned and operated privately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the purpose of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State website?<\/li>\n<li>What problems are intrinsic to a publicly run education system?<\/li>\n<li>Conformity and uniformity in education as inevitable in a government school system.<\/li>\n<li>About Horace Mann, the father of the American state school system: what did he believe a public education system would accomplish?  The influence of the Prussian education system on Mann\u2019s educational ideas.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of public education is not education but \u201cschooling??.  How is true education different from schooling?<\/li>\n<li>Consciousness versus coercion.<\/li>\n<li>What is the &#8220;Alliance for the Separation of School and State&#8221; an alliance of?<\/li>\n<li>Before Horace Mann began to campaign for compulsory public education in Boston, what percent of the children were not getting a formal education?<\/li>\n<li>Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s observations about literacy in the USA before compulsory schooling.<\/li>\n<li>A surprising quote from Horace Mann.<\/li>\n<li>Does the Alliance claim that the State usurps the parents\u2019 rights?<\/li>\n<li>How was state schooling sold to the American Public?<\/li>\n<li>What were the \u201cPhiladelphia Bible Riots&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Quote from the Communist party regarding compulsory state education.<\/li>\n<li>The mind frame of social control and power versus the mind frame of freedom.<\/li>\n<li>The effect of the conventional wisdom passed on to the populace by state schooling.<\/li>\n<li>Undermining the politically weak.<\/li>\n<li>How large is the public education budget in the USA?<\/li>\n<li>Vested interests.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguishing \u201ccapitalism&#8221; from \u201ccapitalists&#8221; and from \u201cfascism&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom, coercion, truth, and untruth.<\/li>\n<li>A crucial educational problem of the &#8220;common school&#8221;: avoidance of discussion on areas in which we disagree.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCritical Literacy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMulticulturalism&#8221; and \u201ctolerance&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Privatize Education: Alan Schaeffer speaks with PRODOS on the SOLID VOX Network\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/pw-privatizeeducation01.mp3\"><em>Listen, download or podcast this interview (mp3)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, download or podcast this interview (mp3) Guest: Alan Schaeffer &#8230; President of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State talks about why the state &#8211; by its nature &#8211; should not and cannot control education. Schools should be owned and operated privately. 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