There is fierce controversy in the United States over whether parents should be able to choose their children's schools and/or curriculum. To discuss the pedagogical arguments inherent in this question, Todd Alan Price and Ruprecht Mattig begin with the classical concept of Bildung as developed by Wilhelm von Humboldt around 1800. Next, they compare Humboldt's ideas with the ideas of John Stuart Mill and Milton Friedman, who stand in the tradition of liberal thought, as Mill was strongly influenced by Humboldt and Friedman, in turn, by Mill. Finally, they consider Friedman's role as a central figure in the school choice movement, and are thus able to trace a line of thought from Humboldt to actual controversies. Price and Mattig's analysis here shows that the liberalism of Humboldt, Mill, and Friedman revolves around diversity and choice in education. Moreover, it traces that in the process of translating, translocating, and transcontextualizing Humboldt's original thought through Mill to Friedman, the complexity of arguments about education and the role of parents and the state in a liberal society has been unduly reduced. The authors conclude the paper by proposing a principle for thinking about the relationship between different educational institutions in democracies.

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教育选择和多样性的转变：从威廉·冯·洪堡到约翰·斯图尔特·密尔到米尔顿·弗里德曼的教育

在美国，关于父母是否应该能够选择孩子的学校和/或课程的问题存在着激烈的争议。为了讨论这个问题固有的教学论点，托德·艾伦·普莱斯和鲁普雷希特·马蒂格从经典概念开始教育由威廉·冯·洪堡在 1800 年左右提出。接下来，他们将洪堡的思想与站在自由主义思想传统上的约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒和米尔顿·弗里德曼的思想进行比较，因为穆勒深受洪堡和弗里德曼的影响，反过来又受到穆勒的影响。最后，他们认为弗里德曼是择校运动中的核心人物，因此能够追溯洪堡的思想路线到实际的争议。普莱斯和马蒂格的分析表明，洪堡、密尔和弗里德曼的自由主义围绕着教育的多样性和选择。此外，它还指出，在通过米尔到弗里德曼对洪堡的原始思想进行翻译、易位和跨语境化的过程中，有关教育以及父母和国家在自由社会中的作用的争论的复杂性被过度降低了。作者在论文的最后提出了思考民主国家不同教育机构之间关系的原则。