Comments on: Depressing Fact of the Day http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/03/depressing_fact.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: march http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/03/depressing_fact.html/comment-page-1#comment-5088 march Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:50:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/03/depressing_fact.html#comment-5088 <p>I couldn't agree more about the disgraceful lack of economic literacy of our fellow citizens, and am dismayed that my kids, made to learn Euclidean geometry and inorganic chemistry (not a bad thing, mind you), have zero requirement to learn about how prices emerge from supply and demand, something that might help them any day that they might pick up the newspaper.</p> <p>However, I'm not as sanguine about an implied conspiracy of silence perpetrated by the public school monopoly. Sure, most teachers are lefty, but that may have less impact than one might suppose. Most young people of this generation (especially mine) are far to the right of their teachers, and far more libertarian than our generation was. As a counterexample, most schools at the turn of the last century had a strong bias toward religion and laissez-faire--a Progressive's nightmare. See what good that did us.</p> I couldn’t agree more about the disgraceful lack of economic literacy of our fellow citizens, and am dismayed that my kids, made to learn Euclidean geometry and inorganic chemistry (not a bad thing, mind you), have zero requirement to learn about how prices emerge from supply and demand, something that might help them any day that they might pick up the newspaper.

However, I’m not as sanguine about an implied conspiracy of silence perpetrated by the public school monopoly. Sure, most teachers are lefty, but that may have less impact than one might suppose. Most young people of this generation (especially mine) are far to the right of their teachers, and far more libertarian than our generation was. As a counterexample, most schools at the turn of the last century had a strong bias toward religion and laissez-faire–a Progressive’s nightmare. See what good that did us.

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