Free to Choose Chapter 6: What's Wrong With Our Schools - Higher Education and Obstacles
In Part 1, we saw how American schools started private, got taken over by government, and slowly became bloated bureaucracies that serve themselves more than students. Friedman proposed a voucher plan – give parents the money and let them choose where to send their kids. Simple idea. But if it is so simple, why has it not happened? And what about colleges and universities – are they suffering from the same disease?