Chomsky on public education

Summary:
[embedded content] Defunding a program is the best way to promote privatization. He discusses here public education, but you can go down the line. The idea of voucherizing Medicare is basically a way of defunding it, worsening its quality and eventually move to private health (you get it if you pay for it). And on education note that while Chomsky is right that it worked well and is being defunded and privatized (think charter schools), it is also true that the system was always unequal and favored the middle class, since the value of housing determined the quality of the public schools.Short excerpt from Requiem for the American Dream, which I highly recommend.

Topics:
Matias Vernengo considers the following as important: Neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Privatization, Public education

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