Another absolutely critical target for the new century, they agreed, should be education. As “the most socialized industry in the world,” the GMU team complained, public schools, from kindergarten through university, nurtured “community values, many of which are inimical to a free society.” Its continuing dominance was an affront to the cause that, since Milton Friedman’s 1955 manifesto, had sought to end the “government monopoly” of schooling.23
