On the way in to work this morning, I got to thinking about the education system and how, as I know from personal experience, having been once married to a public school teacher, the system is simply brimming over with the Stateist mentality. (I was listening to C:TUI at the time…)
And it got me thinking, are there any schools out there which teach from Objectivist principles?
Then I got to thinking - as Objectivists, since we value the Capitalist system, and since the Stateist system is so pervasive in the school systems, would not our values be served by establishing a low-cost school dedicated to Education guided by Objectivist principles?
I personally think its self evident that teaching children at an early age to use reason, to understand the important principles of individual liberty, capitalist economics, etc. would be of long term tremendous value to all of us. Being an Objectivist system, obviously we could not allow such a school to resort to the intellectual bullying that takes place in public institution - but I do think a curriculum could be devised which satisfies state requirements while still being taught in an Objectivist method, leaving the students truly free to evaluate, for themselves, the merits and negatives of our method vs. the oppositions.
I also got to thinking that such schools would be best placed in economic areas that are “borderline” - as a method of combating the influence of state dependence in the welfare state.
By necessity, such schools would need to be low cost or even provided freely - but only to students who’s parents indicate a genuine desire for their child to be armed with the ability to make a better life for themselves, and to students who want to learn how to do that.
The low cost would, therefore, mean that funding (at least initially) would need to come from outside sources. The school could also eventually make money by selling goods produced within, etc. So that got me wondering - how large is the O community, and would the O community be willing to trade the money necessary to establish such an institution for the future value to all Oists that such an institution would bring?
It now occurs to me that someone else has probably thought of this already, and I forgot to search ahead of time - but now its typed up, and of value to me not to delete it (I have to get to work), so… your thoughts please, and my apologies if this is an old idea already found to be flawed - and if that’s the case, please provide links to said proof. 
For your consideration…
