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The other day, I started Edu­ca­tion and the State by E.G. West. It is some­times argued that state funded, state reg­u­lated, and state pro­vided edu­ca­tion is jus­ti­fied by the neces­sity of  pro­tect­ing chil­dren from igno­rance. So, West begins with two chap­ters explor­ing this argu­ment philo­soph­i­cally and assess­ing how well this “pro­tec­tion” works in prac­tice. These chap­ters …