We have expended about as much ammunition on the education debate as the Union and Confederate armies fired off at Gettysburg. Now that the smoke has cleared a bit, I’ll pop my head up and say that I’m still convinced that in a free eductional market, individuals, rich and poor, will optimize the kind and degree of education of which they partake and that state subsidy or direct provision of schooling will not improve upon the outcome of the spontaneous order. The invisible hand of the market — i.e., freedom — works just as well in education as it does in all other areas of life. Government intervention, it seems to me, is no more necessary in education than in, say, the market for medical care, or for in the provision of retirement income security.