Sixty years after independence, with 40 percent of its population under 18, India is now confronting the perils of its failure to educate its citizens, notably the poor. More Indian children are in school than ever before, but the quality of public schools. . . has sunk to spectacularly low levels, as government schools have become reserves of children at the very bottom of India's social ladder. (New York Times, Friday)
As Bastiat says, And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty.
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Backing the Wrong Horse: How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor by James Tooley