# Critics of State Education Part 1: Joseph Priestley

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/critics-of-state-education-part-1-joseph-priestley>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** December 3, 2014

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George H. Smith begins his series on the critics of state education with a discussion of Joseph Priestley, the Englishman who discovered oxygen.

[Originally published in essay form on March 7, 2012.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/critics-state-education-part-1-joseph-priestley)

_Narrated by James Foster._