# Sheldon Richman and David Boaz: The Abolition of Public Schooling **URL:** **By** David Boaz, Sheldon Richman **Published:** August 15, 1996 --- Sheldon Richman is the editor of _The Freeman_ (a magazine published by the Foundation for Economic Education), a senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation, and a research fellow at the Independent Institute. David Boaz is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, and is the author of _Libertarianism: A Primer_ and _The Libertarian Reader_ (1997) and _The Politics of Freedom_ (2008). In this video from a Future of Freedom Foundation event in 1996, Richman and Boaz discuss the reception of Richman's 1994 book, _Separating School and State_, and talk about what a free market in education would look like and how America can move in the direction of educational freedom.