ABSTRACT
At the 1996 History of Education meeting in Toronto, I asked neo conservative Diane Ravitch about the history standards. Stressing the im portance of regulating the school curriculum, she answered, "I want the right attitudes developed by history instruction." What are the right atti tudes? Who should have the power to determine these attitudes? As Austrian economists argue, the problem is not the existence of a particu lar ideology but the use of government to enforce that ideology.
