Quote from: ilikebread on September 30, 2012, 12:55 amMy thoughts on the remainder of the reading - I will respond to interesting forum posts later.Section 2"Teacher salaries would probably plummet. No one would have a right to an education guaranteed by the state. The state could ask for and expect no content or results from education at any level." (p. 35) I seriously wonder if teacher salaries could fall lower (well, maybe I just don't want to imagine it). Surely in a standards-free libertarian world, teachers would not be required to have a teaching certificate or even a degree, but I do believe that teachers should have education in their subject area and some pedagogical training to be effective, and that training does not come free, especially in a world where K-20 education costs money at every step of the way. "A huge range of alternatives would exist, but rare among them would be the current system of megaschools that operate as holding tanks for thousands." (p. 28-29) I disagree completely with this statement. In private business and industry, the tendency for profitable corporations is naturally to expand in order to serve more customers and create more profit. A purely profit-driven school system would seek to maximize returns on their infrastructure by serving more and more students with the resources the school already possesses. One can already see this in action by observing huge for-profit colleges such as University of Phoenix. Teachers are paid as and treated like nothing more than "paper graders", they deliver pre-processed content and evaluate student work using summative evaluations that are simple to grade but do not demonstrate an understanding of the material, only the ability to regurgitate what has been taught. UoP has three times more students enrolled than the next-largest university, despite the questionable quality or value of their educational product. I agree, there would be a demand for some education of all children and besides the fancy specialized education facilities I could easily see there being huge mega schools to supply demand for cheaper and more basic education. And with such a fast growing population, I also think teacher salaries would fare pretty well, even better for the better teachers.