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Free to Choose Madrassas: A Tribute to Milton Friedman IntroductionPage 1Free to Choose Madrassas:A Tribute to Milton FriedmanIntroductionTonight PBS premieres The Power of Choice a biography of Milton Friedman. In tributeto the Nobel prize winning economist we shall today look at the application of his ideason choice and education to the issue of Muslim madrasas.This may seem like an odd pairing of topics. Milton Friedman was an intellectual whochampioned freedom of choice and if one goes by the analysis on Fox News madrasasare kindergartens for terrorism. Of course if you believe Fox News you also believe thatBarack Obama attended a terrorist kindergarten. In reality madrasa is an Arabic wordthat simply means school any kind of school charter school government schoolprivate school or religious school. When I was a youth attending the Durkee Streetelementary school in Pennsylvania my Arabspeaking parents would inform anyone whoasked of my whereabouts that I was at the madrasa. No doubt everyone in this roomattended a madrasa.But there is more to the story than pathetic Fox propaganda. To the contrary the classicalmadrasa demonstrates the reality that underlies Friedmans ideas and the causes of theproblems with certain madrasas today can also be explained with the aid of some ofFriedmans ideas.Freedmans insights:Milton Friedman had many insights in his life. There are two of particular interest to ushere:(1) choice brings about cooperation between the supplier and the consumer.(2) In recent times in America there has been a tragic absence of choice in education.Protectionism and government intervention breed conflict while free markets breedcooperation. The only way to make money in a free market is to provide consumers withsomething for which they willingly pay. Thus says Friedmanin order to make money you have to promote cooperation. You have to dosomething to your customer wants you to do. You dont do it because he ordersyou to. you do it because you offer him a ...

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