# Critics of State Education Part 4: A Free Market in Education

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/critics-of-state-education-part-4-a-free-market-in-education>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** December 24, 2014

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George H. Smith explores the Voluntaryist critique of those who support free trade in religion and commerce but advocate state interference in education.

[Originally published in essay form on March 27, 2012.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/critics-state-education-part-4-free-market-education)

_Narrated by James Foster._