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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek)
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Subject: Newsflash! Torek concedes a point
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 19:26:41 EDT
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Keywords: schools, swimming pools

In reply to someone who suggested that schools, like swimming pools,
should be left entirely to the free market (i.e. no state-sponsored
schooling), I said that education has positive externalities.  While
I still think it does, Daniel K McKiernan has convinced me (by USPS mail)
that the externalities involved are too minor and to hard to identify to
justify a policy of subsidized education.  (Possible exception: it
worries me that some parents might be insufficiently concerned with
their children's future welfare or might be biased against education.
Therefore, I might support state-sponsored education for young
children.)
				--Paul V Torek