[lbo-talk] Obama's Educational Interventionism

Peter Ward nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Jul 25 18:23:56 PDT 2009


Whereas Bush mostly ignored education, in spite of NCLB, Obama provocatively seeks to destroy it --

"Barack Obama views education as a high priority in his administration. Unlike in the Bush administration, he appears far more aware that public and higher education are important sites of struggle with enormous implications for young people, the existing social order, and the future."

Apart from the particulars of what needs to be done, control over education has to relinquished to those who understand it the most and have the most at stake: the students, teachers and community at large. The state's legitimate role is simply to provide those listed with what they ask for, it should not exercise any executive or managerial function (Cf von Humboldt's "Limits of State Action" or "Sphere and Duties of Government").

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