flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) (07/23/85)
In reply to someone who suggested that schools, like swimming pools, should be left entirely to the free market (i.e. no state-sponsored schooling), I said that education has positive externalities. While I still think it does, Daniel K McKiernan has convinced me (by USPS mail) that the externalities involved are too minor and to hard to identify to justify a policy of subsidized education. (Possible exception: it worries me that some parents might be insufficiently concerned with their children's future welfare or might be biased against education. Therefore, I might support state-sponsored education for young children.) --Paul V Torek