Notes
1. It is by no means so fantastic as may at first appear that such a step would noticeably affect the size of families. one explanation of the lower birth rate among higher than among lower socio-economic groups may well be that children are relatively more expensive to the former, thanks in considerable measure to the higher standards of education they maintain and the costs of which they bear.
2. Essentially this proposal – public financing but private operation of education has recently been suggested in several southern states as a means of evading the Supreme Court ruling against segregation. This fact came to my attention after this paper was essentially in its present form. My initial reaction – and https://paydayloannow.org/payday-loans-wy/ I venture to predict, that of most readers – was that this possible use of the proposal was a count against it, that it was a particularly striking case of the possible defect – the exacerbating of class distinctions – referred to in the second paragraph preceding the one to which this note is attached.
Further thought has led me to reverse my initial reaction. Principles can be tested most clearly by extreme cases. Willingness to permit free speech to people with whom one agrees is hardly evidence of devotion to the principle of free speech; the relevant test is willingness to permit free speech to people with whom one thoroughly disagrees. Continue reading G. Johnson for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper