Comment 41943

By zippo (registered) | Posted June 14, 2010 at 09:02:58

A Smith: It may well be that the "government effect" is responsible for some of the relative increase in the cost of primary education, but I think there are other factors to consider that you do not mention.

Consider the trend in the cost of post secondary eduction, where colleges and universities are free to compete with each other and set their own tuition rates. I don't have numbers available, but I'd be surprised if the costs for this eduction had not risen just about as much as those of the primary schools.

Comparing agriculture and manufacture with education is somewhat problematic I think. Many of the techniques which have allowed increased productivity in these sectors are not directly applicable to eduction i.e. industrial robotics and other forms of automated assembly and fabrication, "Green revolution" technologies in agriculture, the off-shoring of much production to slave wage countries, and significant increases in government subsidies to the agricultural and energy sectors.

It may well be that you could educate your child less expensively if you shipped them off to a boarding school in India for 10 years, but I don't see much of a demand for that sort of solution.

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