Of all the government undertakings, none has failed so disastrously as public education. The scope, the depth, and the evidence of this failure are observable all around us. To name three of its obvious symptoms: drug addition among the young (which is an attempt to escape the unbearable state of a mind unable to cope with existence) ? functional illiteracy (the inability of the average high-school or college graduate to speak English, i.e., to speak or write coherently) ? student violence (which means that students have not learned what savages know to some minimal extent: the impracticality and immorality of resorting to physical force).

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Letter, March 13, 1972

Objectivists who have endorsed liberating schools from political influence

Steven Kyle Bradford

USAF retired; Lompoc, CA

Herbert Cooper

Pallet manufacturer; Bloomfield, ON

Chris Delanoy

Transportation engineer; Edmonton, AB

Greg Gerig

Chino Hills, CA

Brett Hoffstadt

Aerospace engineer; Media, PA

John Kelly

Airline pilot; Indialatic, FL

Doug Leard

Information systems; Blue Bell, PA

William Murphy

Student; Chesterfield, MO

Tim Peterson

Sales; Brookfield, WI

Amanda Phillips

Accountant; Burlington, MA

Karen Selick

Bloomfield, ON

Luther Setzer

Mechanical Engineer; Cocoa, FL

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