Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Newsflash! [Subsidized Education] Message-ID: <1191@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 14:04:01 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1191 Posted: Sun Aug 11 14:04:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:35:35 EDT References: <955@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1110@umcp-cs.UUCP> <290@ubvax.UUCP> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 26 Summary: I am not a libertarian, but... In article <290@ubvax.UUCP> tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) writes: >Education does one massive thing that its lack or its privatization >could not: it sets up people with credentials before they get their >first job. Why couldn't private education do this? (By the way: I neglected to mention in my original article that I have in mind high scool and higher education, primarily. I support education of kiddies at the public's expense, at least for poor kids.) >If there is a link between education and research, it is the same >as a link between education and plumbing, or education and secretarial >skills, or education and teaching: education in each of these cases >provides the credentials [...] True, but we should subsidize education-that-qualifies-people-for-research because: If there are lots of scientists available, the price goes down, therefore more research is performed. And we want more research than would be produced in a laissez-faire situation, because research has positive externalities. However, the best way to promote research is probably to have the government hand out grants (like NSF does). If enough demand for research is created thereby, it is unnecessary to subsidize science education. Paul V Torek "We have no lifestyle"