{"id":1205,"date":"2008-12-24T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-12-24T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T00:27:57","slug":"thinking-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh is a libertarian.\u00a0 He had this to say about education:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that government funding for K-12 education is probably a good idea.\u00a0 At the same time, it&#8217;s not clear to me that the government should run the schools.\u00a0 The government funds food for the poor, but we don&#8217;t tell the poor to go to a government run food store.\u00a0 If we did, we would be pretty sure that it would be a lousy food store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree.\u00a0 The k-12 education model is not working.<\/p>\n<p>A non liberal on the UCLA law faculty is a good thing.\u00a0 He has a blog site called the <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Volokh Conspiracy<\/strong><\/a> which is creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh is a libertarian.\u00a0 He had this to say about education: &#8220;I think that government funding for K-12 education is probably a good idea.\u00a0 At the same time, it&#8217;s not clear to me that the government should run the schools.\u00a0 The government funds food for the poor, but we don&#8217;t tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}