A regime of liberty for private education?

Asian American groups file racial quotas complaint against Harvard University

Here's a thought. 

Get government's hands off private education.

Cut all the strings attached to government aid or even abolish direct aid altogether, leaving only tuition assistance with parents and students free to use it as they please.

The Department of Education should not control education, either its content or who has access to what schools.

Maybe it has no reason to exist at all, unless it's to be the banker for cheap school loans and for other tuition/school expense assistance programs.

If Harvard wants to admit only left-handed, soccer-playing pygmies from Bechuanaland (Botswana) for a few years that's Harvard's call.

And if Liberty University wants to admit only white kids - even if only white boys - who promise not to kiss before the 5th date and to never, never, go "all the way," teaching only Young Earth Creationism in their biology department, that's their call, too.

If not, why not?

President Obama has said education in schools with distinct and more than nominal religious commitments is divisive, I know.

That just shows how little liberals value actual diversity, actual freedom of speech, religion, and thought, and actual cultural pluralism.

They value cultural diversity only in cuisine, folk-dancing, and costume specialties like yarmulkes and the burka.

They have a racial agenda to advance behind a smokescreen of talk about diversity.

Many of the most important advantages of capitalism over socialism are as important in the areas of culture and education as they are in the development and implementation of innovative technologies.

In the former areas these show up as real cultural, educational, artistic, and intellectual creativity, pluralism, diversity, and unhindered innovation.

And these can be stifled or lost altogether through over-regulation just as well as creativity and dynamism can be lost in the economy as a whole.

Here as elsewhere there is not the least chance in Hell that what I would prefer to see happen will happen.

And don't be too sure only the left would oppose so libertarian-sounding a regime.

Remember how the Christians of America dealt with Joseph Smith and his followers.

Update, 05202015, 1431 hrs EDT.

Thinking they would surely have more to say in such a Hayek-like vein about the threat posed by government control of education and culture, I sought libertarian discussions of the question and found only obtuse Duckspeak, the mindless citation of libertarian dogma, like this wholly uninspired driveling that shows no sign the author has any real appreciation for Hayek and his sort of analysis and argument, at all.

The Libertarian Case Against Public Schools

Libertarians oppose public schools because they are government schools. 

It doesn’t matter if none of the evils of public schools mentioned above even exist. 

It is simply not the proper role of government to educate children. 

Neither is it the proper role of government to force Americans to pay for the education of their children in a public school or to pay for the education of the children of other Americans. 

It is an illegitimate purpose of government to have anything to do with the education of anyone’s children. 

It is the responsibility of parents to educate their children. 

How they choose to do that is entirely up to them, but public schooling shouldn’t even be an option.

Blah, blah, blah.

What a maroon.