
The Friedmans on School Choice
The Friedmans engaged all Americans to explain the intentions and mechanics of school choice.
Milton and Rose D. Friedman’s writing and opinions were featured in a variety of media, such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and CNBC. Explore this page to read the Friedman’s works and browse a collection of their famous quotes.
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MILTON FRIEDMAN ON BUSTING THE SCHOOL MONOPOLY
“The only solution is to break the monopoly, introduce competition and give the customers alternatives.”
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS: MAKE THEM PRIVATE
“A greatly improved educational system can do more than anything else to limit the harm to our social stability from a permanent and large underclass.”
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WHY AMERICA NEEDS SCHOOL VOUCHERS
“The major objective of educational vouchers is much more ambitious. It is to drag education out of the 19th century – here it has been mired for far too long – and into the 21st century, by introducing competition on a broad scale.”
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MILTON FRIEDMAN ON VOUCHERS
“Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for itself the school to which its children go. We are far from that ultimate result. If we had that – a system of free choice – we would also have a system of competition, innovation, which would change the character of education.”
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THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION
The general trend in our times toward increasing intervention by the state in economic affairs has led to a concentration of attention and dispute on… -
MILTON FRIEDMAN ON DECENTRALIZING SCHOOLS
“This is the right way to decentralize schooling, to give parents more effective control over schools, and to open up opportunities for children in the… -
SELLING SCHOOL LIKE GROCERIES: THE VOUCHER IDEA
“A fable may dramatize the true source of the nation’s present discontent with our public schools: Suppose that, 50 or 75 years ago the U.S.… -
WHATS WRONG WITH OUR SCHOOLS?
Education has always been a major component of the American Dream. In Puritan New England, schools were quickly established, first as an adjunct of the… -
WHO WINS, WHO LOSES – A LOOK AT THE FUTURE
All school age children are entitled to receive a voucher. The percentage of all students in private schools has risen from 10 percent to 30… -
THE VOUCHER CHALLENGE
Those of us who have long worked to promote educational choice have mixed feelings when we observe the current scene. On the one hand, sprouts… -
FOUNDER’S LETTER
This foundation is the culmination of what has been one of our main interests for more than four decades: improvement in the quality of the…