With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want…

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining t…

We live in a capitalist economy, and I have no particular objection to honorable self-interest. We cannot hope to make the needed, drastic improvement in prima…

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we …

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