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Still wrong on schools

Still wrong on schools

Milton Friedman reminds readers of Opinion Journal that he is still an education socialist. The separation of finance (public) and administration (private)? Imagine how that would system would affect, say, WalMart or Dell. At the least, it would require compulsory shopping laws—a correlary to the compulsory education that Friedman still believes has "some justification."

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