Education: Free and Compulsory

Education: Free and Compulsory is the title of a monograph by American economist Murray Rothbard. First published in 1971 in The Individualist the text identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail: at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent.

See also

• Public education
• Private school

Links

• Resources page at Mises.org (including full text)
  • Full text PDF
  • HTML version published as Mises Daily
  • EPUB ebook

• Articles, essays and reviews
  • Rothbard in the Indian Supreme Court by Daniel J. Sanchez, April 2012