Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1966: A Clovis News-Journal editorial promoted education via private schools.
“We believe the free enterprise way is the better way,” the editorial stated.
“The government does not provide shoe stores, churches, supermarkets, clothing stores or automobile factories for us. But we have all of these things in abundance. No other nation enjoys so many products and services, provided by free enterprise.
“Why is it not logical to assume that this same system would provide us with an abundance of schools — schools of all sizes, prices, qualities, philosophies and degrees of specialization?
“If the billions of dollars now being spent for government-operated schools were left in our pockets so that we could all buy the kind of voluntary education that suits us best, why is it not logical to assume that free enterprise will provide just as large a variety of schools as it offers varieties in churches and of products in the supermarket or hardware store?
“If education is freed from government control and compulsion, Americans will learn to free themselves from other forms of government control — parities, subsidies, tariffs, acreage allotments and government-owned industries.
“Government education furthers government control, just as free enterprise education would tend to further free enterprise and individual freedom.
“All forms reproduce themselves. Figs do not produce thistles.”
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