Here is a wonderfully radical column by Yale professor David Gelernter (who was badly injured years ago by a nasty little package he received from the Unabomber) in the LA Timesin which he argues that it’s time to get rid of public education.

Bravo! It is time. In fact, it has always been time. As Gelernter observes, government schooling was not an American idea, but rather a European notion smuggled in. Instituting government schooling was perhaps the greatest blunder we’ve ever made.