The John Hyde Archives

Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.

Education

Measuring Education

Education 

  • Both labour and liberal party members send their children to private schools due to teachers moving to private schools. Government schools perform the worst compared to catholic and private schools.
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Universities

Education 

  • Intellectual capital, primarily benefits whoever owns it like physical capital. It should be purchased even though it is not transferrable.
  • "Free" education unfairly taxes the poor who rarely enjoy the benefits of it.
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Universities 2

Education 

  • Free education offers both students and academics wrong incentives.
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An International College

Education 

  • Australia has a comparative advantage in the field of education. Allowing for a private college to be setup in Perth will not take away anything from the students.
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Education and Guardianship

Education  Competition 

  • The best kind of education where a child can get is one where there is a lot of competition.
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Partington

Education  Protectionism 

  • Education is predicated on objective standards and can only assessed using those standards.
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Academic Accountability

Education 

  • Any paid academic must be held accountable for the value of their salary and academic freedom is best protected by an absence of government funding and a large range of sponsors.
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Immigration Hypocrisy

Immigration  Education 

  • Diversity is potentially a source of program but also of factionalism. Children of immigrants would seem to be integrating into Australia given their excellent exam results.
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Reforming Education

Education  Regulation  Competition  Individual Rights 

  • The best option to education is to deregulate it and to allow the people the freedom to make their choices wisely.
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A Report Card for School

Education  Competition 

  • Teachers must be given the incentives to perform well and be disciplined by the market if they do not perform.
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Education: An Outsider's View

Education 

  • Schooling fails to educate because it is often banal. Most students and teachers are bored by the syllabus.
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The Education Problem

Education 

  • The issue with education is that it is a monopoly which is compulsory for children to attend and which parents have limited power.
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Education

Education  Taxation  Competition 

  • Education is a private benefit which the government subsidises by using taxpayer's monies. It is time we allowed all schools to compete on equal financial terms and allow parents to select their child's education.
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The ACER Findings

Education 

  • Comparing present practices in private and public schools is the best way to inform parents on the effectiveness of sending their children to the school of their choice.
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