Ron Paul talks to Glenn Beck on Home Schooling

His new book "The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System" has become a bestseller.



Below another interview at the MisesOrg:
.... Ron Paul’s School Revolution... 
Mises Institute: Your books in the past have tended to address issues such as hard money, private property, and central banking. Why are you now looking at education?

Ron Paul: People during the presidential campaigns spoke of a Ron Paul Revolution. But without a revolution in education, there can be no Revolution. If people get to learn about the freedom philosophy only in caricature, if at all, and they never get exposed to the Austrian economists, it will be difficult to impossible to sustain our present momentum over the long term.
Don’t misunderstand me: I am thrilled at our progress and more optimistic than I have ever been. But as for the long term, I am concerned all this excitement could fizzle if the infrastructure doesn’t exist to keep it going. And that means we can’t ignore education.

MI: How would you describe your own education? How has the state changed the way that we are educated now compared to then?
RP: I was fairly happy with my education. I went to a public school, yes, but in fairness it was about as good as a government institution can be: we had full local control, no fashionable but silly pedagogy was forced on us, and the students came from solid family backgrounds. We had our troublemakers, but really none of the pathologies we encounter so often today.

MI: You mention Leonard Read more than once in your book. How has he shaped your views of education and freedom?

RP: From Leonard Read, whom I greatly admired, I took a commitment to.....