>You cannot know what a free market in education would look like, because we've never tried. Why doesn't the time before public schools existed constitute a tr

>You cannot know what a free market in education would look like, because we've never tried. Why doesn't the time before public schools existed constitute a try? Seems to me humanity had centuries to millenia of a free market in education: anyone was free to offer or purchase as much education as they could afford. It wasn't very nice.