milton used to say a voucher program for a poor will be a poor voucher program. john: it should be for everybody? everybody should have this choice. we ll certainly take it as start. we think that within a few years they ll be a enough data there will be a great demonstration of fact and we ll see it spread. john: so we all get vouchers and schools compete and all get better, but there is really rich schools where rich people go and add their voucher to the extra tuition. there will be some inequity. i look at chile that has better schools but people riot because it was inequality a separation between rich people and poor people. all these young people hate that. there are irrational preferences in the world.
they say america s public schools are one of the best parts of america. what i ve learned the opposite is true. government schools are one of the worst parts of america. not just because the government monopoly doesn t educate well but the schools aren t even the melting pot that people think they are. today s government schools are more racially seg degree gated than private schools. people don t know that. one man who does know and also fights for education choice is patrick burn a ceo of overstock.com that sells cheap stuff over the internet. pa tragic, you call the school choice movement the civil rights issue of the 21th century. that s right. if people are worried about income and inequality and racial inequality. a lot of that gets driven by education inequality. if you have some folks graduating with high school with a bucket full of human ka79 and
was 50 years ago. you go back 50 years the difference between middle-class person and rich person and stuff they bout bought with their money was a lot different an middle-class person and even bill gates. john: appointee poor people have access to cars, cellphones and flush toilets even kings didn t have years ago. given that there is disparity that feels unfair. americans have always been, i think this is a good deal, have been willing to accept even large amounts of inequality throngs three things are present. one, that those at the top didn t cheat. either you are crazy person or the vast majority have cheated to get their money. it s the exception not the rule when it happens. we should go after it. number two is growth, those in inequality where it leads to
not just because the government monopoly doesn t educate well but the schools aren t even the melting pot that people think they are. today s government schools are more racially seg degree gated than private schools. people don t know that. one man who does know and also fights for education choice is patrick burn a ceo of overstock.com that sells cheap stuff over the internet. pa tragic, you call the school choice movement the civil rights issue of the 21th century. that s right. if people are worried about income and inequality and racial inequality. a lot of that gets driven by education inequality. if you have some folks graduating with high school with a bucket full of human ka79 and folks graduating with a symbol, you have to address that. john: we get more social stratification under the
milton used to say a voucher program for a poor will be a poor voucher program. john: it should be for everybody? everybody should have this choice. we ll certainly take it as start. we think that within a few years they ll be a enough data there will be a great demonstration of fact and we ll see it spread. john: so we all get vouchers and schools compete and all get better, but there is really rich schools where rich people go and add their voucher to the extra tuition. there will be some inequity. i look at chile that has better schools but people riot because it was inequality a separation between rich people and poor people. all these young people hate that. there are irrational preferences in the world.