Hello, im Robert Mackenzie and welcome again to the university of chicago. It was here in 1976 that Milton Friedman, professor of economics, learned that hed been awarded that years nobel prize for economics, science, university. Is, in a sense, his intellectual and professional home. And thats why free to choose has been coming here for the past several weeks. Now, the subject tonight is education. And its often pointed out that theres intense dissatisfaction in many quarters with the state of Public Education. Billions poured in of taxpayers money. Yet too many youngsters leaving School Without adequate skills in reading and other such equipment theyll need later on in life. Well, now, when that happens, what can be done about it . Milton friedman, himself a teacher most of his life, has diagnosed the problem, and he believes he has a solution. As well see in this film. These youngsters are beginning another day at one of americas Public Schools, Hyde Park High School in boston. What
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